Yeghia Tashjian is the Founder and Director of the “New Eastern Politics Forum”, as well as a regional analyst and researcher with a focus on geopolitical and energy security in the Middle East and the South Caucasus. He has graduated from the American University of Beirut in Public Policy and International Affairs. He pursued his BA at Haigazian University in Political Science in 2013. He founded the New Eastern Politics forum/blog in 2010. He was a Research Assistant at the Armenian Diaspora Research Center at Haigazian University. Currently, he is the Regional Officer of Women in War, a gender-based think tank. He has participated in international conferences in Frankfurt, Vienna, Uppsala, New Delhi, Tunisia, and Yerevan, and presented various topics from minority rights to regional security issues. His thesis topic was on China’s geopolitical and energy security interests in Iran and the Persian Gulf. He is a contributor to the various local and regional newspapers, columnist in the “Armenian Weekly”, and presenter of the “Turkey Today” program in Radio Voice of Van.