Khatchik DerGhougassian is a Ph.D in International Studies from the University of Miami in Coral Gables, Florida. He received his M.A. in International Relations from the Facultad Latinoamericana de Ciencias Sociales (Latin American Faculty of Social Sciences –FLACSO) in Buenos Aires, Argentina, in 1994, and his B.A. in Computer Science from Haigazian University in Beirut, Lebanon in 1985. He started his professional career as a reporter for the Aztag Daily Newspaper in Beirut from 1981 to 1987, and the editor of the Armenian newspaper ARMENIA in Buenos Aires, Argentina from 1987 to 1997. He is a professor of International Relations at Universidad Nacional de Lanús. From 2004-2017 he was a professor and researcher at Universidad de San Andrés in Argentina, as well as Visiting Professor at the American University of Armenia in Yerevan, Armenia. He is  the author/editor of four books including El derrumbe del negacionismo. Leandro Despouy, el Informe Whitaker y el aporte argentino al reconocimiento internacional del Genocidio de los armenios (2009) and more than 50 peer reviewed articles, book chapters and monographs, including  “Genocide and Identity (Geo)Politics: Bridging State Reasoning and Diaspora Activism” (Genocide Studies International, 2014, vol. 8, n. 2, pp. 193-207). Dr. DerGhougassian has been on unpaid leave since January 2017 for a higher  public post.