Mher Sahakyan is the founder and director of the China-Eurasia Council for Political and Strategic Research, a foundation in Armenia. He holds a doctorate in international relations from China’s Nanjing University. Mher Sahakyan was a 2020-2022 AsiaGlobal Fellow of the Asia Global Institute of the University of Hong Kong. Mher Sahakyan founded the Eurasian Research on Modern China and Eurasia annual international conference. 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 British Association for Chinese Studies, the Asia Society of Hong Kong and the International Political Science Association. He is a lecturer at the Russian-Armenian University and Yerevan State University. He 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. He is co-editor (with Heinz Gärtner) of  China and Eurasia: Rethinking Cooperation and Contradictions in the Era of Changing World Order, published by Routledge in September 2021. He is the editor of China and Eurasian Powers in Multipolar World Order: Security, Diplomacy, Economy and Cybersecurity, which Routledge will publish in March 2023.