David Babayan

David Babayan
Head of the Central Information Department of the Office of the Artsakh Republic President - deputy head of the Artsakh Republic President's Office
Incumbent
Assumed office 2013
Personal details
Born	1973 Stepanakert

David Babayan, Head of the Central Information Department of the Office of the Artsakh Republic President - deputy head of the Artsakh Republic President's Office.

Biography

• Born on April 5, 1973 in Stepanakert, Nagorno Karabakh.
• 1989–1994 - Yerevan Institute of National Economy,Department of State Regulation of Economy, Diploma of an economist.
• 1994–1997 - American University of Armenia, Yerevan, Armenia, Department of Political Science and International Relations, Master of Arts.
• 1997-1998 - Central European University, Budapest, Hungary, Department of International Relations and European Studies, Master of Arts.
• 2002–2005 - PhD student at the Institute of Oriental Studies of the Armenian National Academy of Sciences. PhD (History).
• 2018 defended PhD (doctoral) thesis at the Institute of Oriental Studies of the Armenian National Academy of Sciences and got PhD in history (doctor of historical science).

Career

• January 1997 – March 1997 - Analyst at the Center for Policy Analysis, American University of Armenia, Yerevan.
• September 1998 – December 1999 - Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the NKR, Second Secretary of the Political Department.
• 1998 – 2007 - Russian-Armenian Modern Humanitarian Academy, Lecturer of International Public Law, International Private Law, International Humanitarian Law, History of Political and Legal Disciplines.
• 2004 – January 2013 - Lecturer at Artsakh State University, teaching courses on political science, geopolitics and geopolitical history of Azerbaijan
• January 2000 – May 2001 - Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the NKR, Political Department, Head of the Desk for Political Programming.
• May 2001 – December 2001 - Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the NKR, Head of the Political Department.
• December 2001 – January 2005 - Expert of the Planning Group under the NKR President.
• February 2005 – September 2007 - Assistant to the President of the Nagorno Karabakh Republic (NKR).
• September 2007 – December 2013 - Head of the Central Information Department of the Office of the Artsakh Republic President
• December 2013 – present - Head of the Central Information Department of the Office of the Artsakh Republic President - deputy head of the Artsakh Republic President's Office

Publications

More than 300 publications in different leading Karabagh, Armenian, Russian, European magazines and journals. The main areas of scientific research are the Azerbaijani-Karabagh conflict settlement, Caucasian geopolitics, great power competition and Chinese geopolitics. David Babayan is a member of the NKR Union of Writers. He is the author of the following books and monographs:

• The Issue of Water Within the Context of the Nagorno Karabagh Conflict Settlement, Stepanakert, “Dizak Plus”, 2007, 143 pages;
• Political History of the Karabagh Khanate within the Context of Artsakh Armenian Diplomacy, Yerevan, “Antares”, 2007, 119 pages, republished as Artsakh Meliks and Karabagh Khanate, Stavropol (Russian Federation), “Stavropolblankizdat”, 2008;
• Modern Chinese Geopolitics. Some Directions and Forms, Noravank Scientific Education Fund, Yerevan,2010, 352 pages;
• Chinese Policy in Central Asia, the Caucasus and Northern Caspian Sea Region in the end of XX – beginning of XXI Century, Institute of Oriental Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, 2013, 328 pages;
• The Role and Place of the Armenian Plateau in Biblical Geopolitics, Yerevan, 2015, 110 pages.

Honours and awards

2016 - Awarded with Artsakh Republic “Vachagan Barepasht” state medal.

External links

• http://www.president.nkr.am/