Armen Grigoryan

Armen Grigoryan is co-founder and vice president of the Yerevan-based Centre for Policy Studies; he coordinates research activities and edits the Eastern Partnership Monthly Bulletin. 

He has published several book chapters and journal articles covering politics, economy and security issues in the South Caucasus and EU Eastern Neighbourhood; is a regular contributor to US-based online journals, the Central Asia-Caucasus Analyst and the Eurasia Daily Monitor; he has published over 300 articles and interviews in Armenian and foreign media. He also participates in the Partnership for Peace Consortium Track II diplomacy workshops. Previously, he worked as a policy adviser for several Armenian non-governmental organisations and think-tanks, assessed investment-related political risks in Armenia for IHS Global Limited, and was a peer reviewer for Global Integrity and Transparency International.

He did an internship at the European Parliament in 2007; was a guest scholar (grantee of the National Scholarship Programme of the Slovak Republic) at University of Prešov (2009) and at Matej Bel University in Banská Bystrica (2013); Open Society Institute Local Government and Public Service Reform Initiative visiting fellow (2010-2011); Black Sea Young Reformers Fellowship participant (2011); International Visegrad Fund research fellow at the Open Society Archives in Budapest (2011); Think Visegrad research fellow at Slovak Foreign Policy Association Research Centre (2013); visiting scholar at Central European University Department of Political Science (2015) and Central European University Centre for European Neighbourhood Studies (2017); Visegrad visiting scholar at Matej Bel University in Banská Bystrica, teaching a course on South Caucasus regional security (2018); visiting researcher (Prague Civil Society Centre fellow) at Budapest-based Political Capital Institute (2019); and Eurasia Democratic Security Network fellow (2019).