Ambassador Rouben Shougarian
Rouben Shougarian is a career diplomat. He served as Armenia's Deputy Foreign Minister (1999-2005), Ambassador to Italy, Spain and Portugal (2005-2008), and Armenia's first Ambassador to the United States (1993-1999).
He also served as a senior staffer for the Armenian Parliament's Standing Committee on Foreign Affairs (1991), and a senior foreign policy aide and spokesperson for President Ter-Petrossian (1992).
Ambassador Shougarian currently resides in Boston, MA, where he teaches conflict and area studies at the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy, Tufts University.
He holds an MA with honors from Yerevan Linguistic University (1985), and has completed post-graduate studies in philosophy, theory of culture and aesthetics at the Yerevan State University (1989).
Throughout his career Mr. Shougarian has had numerous public appearances, talks and lectures at leading US, European, Middle Eastern and Russian academic and policy institutions. He is the author of numerous articles on conflict resolution, regional cooperation, the new geopolitical identity of the Black Sea/South Caucasus region, and a recently published book titled "West of Eden, East of the Chessboard".
