Dr Andranik Israyelyan is an Assistant Professor of International Relations at the Yerevan State University and a former public servant in Armenia. He has previously taught IR at the Public Administration Academy of Armenia and the Slavonic University. Mr Israyelyan is also an experienced public servant. He has worked as an Assistant to the Rector of Diplomatic School and at the Press department of the Foreign Ministry (2011-2016, 2019). He also worked as a Research Fellow at the Defense Ministry National Defense Research University (2016-2018), an Expert at the Standing Committee of Defense and Security of the Parliament (2018) and a Head of External Relations Division at the Justice Ministry (2020-2021).
Andranik has earned his BA and MA in International Relations at the Yerevan State University, an MSc in Russian and East European Studies at Oxford University, and PhD in World History at the Institute of Oriental Studies. He has authored the monograph in Armenian— ‘Peculiarities of Turkish foreign policy under the AKP (2016). He defended his Master’s thesis on Russian responses to the Armenian Velvet Revolution at the Oxford University and later published a monograph on the same topic with the same title in English (Yerevan, 2020).
In addition to public service and academia, Andranik is an avid marathon runner, aiming at completing all seven World Marathon Majors.
