Mher D Sahakyan is a Fulbright Visiting Scholar at the School of Advanced International Studies of Johns Hopkins University. He is the founding director of the China‑Eurasia Council for Political and Strategic Research in Armenia. He was a 2024 LEWI Visiting Fellow at the David C Lam Institute for East-West Studies at Hong Kong Baptist University. Mher holds a doctorate in international relations from China's Nanjing University.

He is the editor of Routledge Handbook of Chinese and Eurasian International Relations and China and Eurasian Powers in Multipolar World Order 2.0: Security, Diplomacy, Economy and Cybersecurity, which Routledge published in 2024 and 2023. He is the co-editor of China and Eurasia: Rethinking Cooperation and Contradictions in the Era of Changing World Order, published by Routledge in 2021. Mher is the author of the book China’s Belt and Road Initiative and Armenia, published in Armenian and Russian. It was shortlisted by the International Convention of Asia Scholars in Leiden, Netherlands, for its 2021 book prize. He is also the author of “The New Great Power Competition in Central Asia: Opportunities and Challenges for the Gulf,” a contribution published in 2021 by the Anwar Gargash Diplomatic Academy in the United Arab Emirates.

In 2023, the Ministry of Education and Science of Armenia’s Supreme Certifying Committee awarded him an associate professorship in political science. He is an elected advisory board member of the International Institute for Peace, Austria, and the School of Liberal Arts & Humanities, Woxsen University, India. Mher is also a member of the International Political Science Association, International Studies Association, and the Author’s Licensing and Collecting Society.

He founded the annual Eurasian Research on Modern China and Eurasia conference, fostering academic collaborations and research partnerships. Mher has received invitations to showcase his research as a keynote speaker at the Renmin University, Corvinus University of Budapest, University of Calicut, and as a speaker at the University of Oxford, University of Cambridge, International Institute for Peace, Moscow State University, Eastern Economic Forum, University of Hong Kong, Shanghai University, University of Edinburgh, King’s College London, Academic Council on the United Nations System, Delegation of the EU to China, City University of Hong Kong, Jawaharlal Nehru University, Hong Kong Baptist University, Istanbul Gedik University, and several others.

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