Benyamin Poghosyan is the Senior Research Fellow at the APRI Armenia. Prior to joining APRI he was the lecturer at the Russian-Armenian University and Research Fellow at the American Studies Center of the Yerevan State University. From 2010 to 2019, he served as the deputy director and then director of the Institute for National Strategic Studies (INSS), an Armenian MOD think tank, where he focused on Armenian foreign policy, regional geopolitics of the South Caucasus, and Nagorno-Karabakh conflict. At INSS he supervised the elaboration of more than hundred policy briefs for the Armenian political-military leadership. Before serving at the Ministry of Defense, Poghosyan worked at the Institute of History of the National Academy of Sciences, where he focused on Armenian foreign policy. Poghosyan holds a PhD in history from National Academy of Sciences and passed a certificate course on International Security Studies at the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy.