Ashot Voskanyan

Ashot Voskanyan (; born April 24, 1949) He was also a senior member of the HHSh. He speaks fluent German.

In 1995 Voskanyan was appointed Armenia's Ambassador to Austria, Hungary, Czech Republic and Slovakia (stationed in Vienna) and as Armenia's Permanent Representative to Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE) and the United Nations Office at Vienna. In 1998 he was appointed Ambassador of Armenia to Germany, a position he held until 2002. He then worked in different positions at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, and Head of Asia-Pacific and Africa Department at the Ministry.

He is the founder and president of the Armenian Research Center in Humanities (ARCH) since 1993. He formerly lectured at the Yerevan State University as well.

Views Voskanyan, himself an active participant of the Karabakh movement, argues that it was the end of something, while the 2018 Armenian revolution was the beginning of something. On May 2, 2018 he was among the faculty of the American University of Armenia that signed a public statement supporting "the Armenian people's peaceful movement to restore social democratic values and fair, transparent elections."

Publications Voskanyan has authored more than 50 publications, in Armenian, Russian, German, English and French.

In 2017 his The Time of Charents (Չարենցի ժամանակը) was published in which he analyzes the thought of Yeghishe Charents, the prominent Armenian poet, and that of Goethe.

Selected publications: