David Babayan

Education

• 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.
• 2018 defended PhD thesis at the Institute of Oriental Studies of the Armenian National Academy of Sciences and got PhD in history.

  Career

• 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 – present – 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.
• 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.
• 17 April 2019 – Chairman of the Artsakh Conservative Party.
• May 2020 - present - Adviser to the Artsakh Republic President on foreign relations.

  Publications

• 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, "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;
• Hydro-Policy of the Azerbaijani-Karabagh Conflict, Moscow-Yerevan, 2019, 168 pages.

  Honours and awards