Sossi Tatikyan

Sossi Tatikyan holds a Master of Public Administration degree from the Harvard Kennedy School, Executive MBA from ESCP Business School, has been NATO Defense College Partnership for Peace Research Fellow (2007), and is currently a PhD Researcher in Sorbonne Nouvelle University supported by Gulbenkian Foundation.

Her main research topics are: Foreign and security policy analysis, ethnic conflicts, cognitive and information warfare and lawfare, Euro-Atlantic integration, security dilemmas of small states.

In her first career, she was a diplomat (until 2006), representing Armenia in NATO and IAEA (International Atomic Energy Agency). Subsequently she has been an OSCE and UN Political and Security Sector Governance Advisor in the UN missions in Kosovo, Timor-Leste, Central African Republic and African Union (2006-2018). She has coordinated UNDP and Freedom House democratic governance projects and conducted research on security sector governance for DCAF (Security Governance Center in Geneva) in Armenia. Currently, she is a Key Expert in EU Security Sector Governance Facility.

Since 2021, Sossi has been acting as an independent analyst on foreign and security policies, involved in informal public diplomacy and peacebuilding. She combines academic research and policy work through articles, policy advice and public speaking. She is a member of the UN Senior Women Talent Pipeline and UN Security Sector Reform Advisory Network.