Our People
Governing Bodies of AIU
Board of Trustees- Chairman, the President of Grand Holding, Armenia
Dr. Hrant Vardanian
President
Professor Dr. Garnik Asatrian
Rector
Dr. Armenuhi Hovhannisian
Along with the internal governing bodies – President, the University Council, Academic Board, and Rector – the strategy and Academic guidelines of AIU are determined by an International Board including:
(Shiraz, Iran)
Professor Dr. SEKANDAR AMANOLAHI
Professor of Shiraz University (Iran); Member of the Editorial Board of "Iran and the Caucasus" (Brill Academic Publishers, Leiden, the Netherlands). A distinguished scholar and internationally renowned expert in tribal societies of Iran and the Region, Social Anthropology, Ethnography, theory of ethnicity and pastoral nomadism.
(Tehran, Iran)
Dr. BAHRAM AMIRAHMADIAN
Researcher and Scientific Advisor to Central Asian and Caucasian Studies Centre,Institute for International
and Political Studies, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the Islamic Republic of Iran. The scope of academic interests of Dr.Amirahmadian covers a vast area including the history of the South Caucasus,Political and Human Geography of
Iran and the Region, and economy of the tribal societies of Iran.
(Yerevan, Armenia)
Professor Dr. GARNIK ASATRIAN
Chair, Department of Iranian Studies, Yerevan State University; Director, Caucasian Centre for Iranian Studies;
Editor-in-Chief,“Iran and the Caucasus” (Brill Academic Publishers, Leiden, the Netherlands); the President of Arya International University,Yerevan. Expert in Pre-Islamic Iranian languages and Culture, Iranian historical dialectlolgy, Ethnography, Kurdology, and Iranian etymology in general.
(Leiden, the Netherlands)
Professor Dr. UWE BLÄSING
Professor of Altaistics and Turkology in Leiden University, the Netherlands; Associate Editor of the International Journal “Iran and the Caucasus” (Brill Academic Publishers, Leiden, the Netherlands). A prominent expert in historical dialectology and lexicology of Turkic languages, Mongolian and Armenian linguistics, and ethnic interactions in Asia, Minor and the Caucasian-Iranian area, as well as etymology in general.
(Tbilisi, Georgia)
Professor Dr. JAMSHID SHALVOVICH GIUNASHVILI
Deputy Director, Institute of Oriental Studies, Georgian Academy of Sciences; former Ambassador of the Republic of Georgia to the Islamic Republic of Iran. A distinguished scholar, expert in Persian language and literature, especially in Persian Grammar, Typology, and Phonetics.
(S. Petersburg, Russia)
Professor Dr. VLADIMIR ARONOVICH LIVSHITS
Professor Emeritus, Institute of Oriental Studies, Russian Academy of Sciences, SPb; Fellow of British Academy; Member of the Editorial Board, “Corpus Inscriptionum Iranicarum”, and “Iran and the Caucasus” (Brill Academic Publishers, Leiden, the Netherlands). Prof. Livshits is one of the great Orientalists of our time, a prominent expert in Pre-Islamic Iranian languages, religions and cultures, Middle Iranian (Middle Persian, Parthian, Sogdian) Epigraphy, and history and culture of Central Asia and Iran.
(Lecce, Italy)
Professor Dr. GIUSTO TRAINA
Professor Ordinarius of the Chair of Roman History at the University of Lecce (Italy), Professor of Université de Paris VIII, and Guest Professor at Université de Louvain (Belgique); Associate Editor of the International Journal “Iran and the Caucasus” (Brill Academic Publishers, Leiden, the Netherlands), Member of the Directing Committee of l’Association internationale pour les Études arméniennes, and the Editorial Board of Le Muséon (Pecters).A recognised specialist in Roman, Armenian, and Caucasian history and culture.
(Venice, Italy)
Professor Dr. LEVON ZEKIYAN
The Head of the Armenian language and Literature Programme at Ca' Foscari University of Venice, and of the Armenian Church Institution at the Pontifical Oriental Institute of Rome; Foreign member of the Armenian National Academy of Sciences; Member of the Editorial Board, “Iran and the Caucasus” (Brill Academic Publisher, Leiden, the Netherlands). One of the recognised Armenologists and experts in Caucasian culture,Church history, Philosophy of Humanism, Theology, and theory of ethnicity.
