Hratch Tchilingirian is a founding Board Member of Eurasia House International and is Associate Director of Eurasia Programme at the Judge Business School, University of Cambridge.

He received his PhD from the London School of Economics and Political Science (2003) and a Master of Public Administration (MPA) (summa cum laude) from California State University Northridge (1991). Dr. Tchilingirian has held leadership positions in academic and non-profit institutions in the United States and Great Britain. He has played leading roles in enhancing the development of institutional partnerships in industry, commerce, politics, academia and civil society.

His research interests include political and corporate leadership; political and territorial disputes in the Caucasus and Central Asia and their impact on economic and geostrategic developments; Diaspora studies; and politics of religion in the Eurasia region. Dr. Tchilingirian, as part of his academic research and interests, has designed, developed and continues to maintain an intelligent database of news, analyses and reports on the Caspian region (currently containing over 50,000 items). He continues to develop "intelligent" information management systems.

Since the mid-1990s, Dr. Tchilingirian has lectured extensively on political and sociological developments in post-Soviet Caucasus and the Caspian region at a wide range of places, including the Centre d'Etudes du Monde russe, soviétique et post soviétique (EHESS), Paris; Chamber of Small and Medium Sized Industries, Athens; Haigazian University, Beirut; Heythrop College; Institut Français; Lebanese American University; L'Observatoire européen de géopolitique, Paris; London School of Economics; School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London; Yerevan State University, and others.

Starting in 1987, he worked as programs director in a community of 20,000 in Los Angeles, California, planning and implementing various projects for youth, young adults, professionals, and developing networks and relations between the community and the private sector. From 1991 to 1994, Tchilingirian was the Dean of St. Nersess Seminary in New Rochelle, New York. In addition to academic planning, financial accountability, development of student life and community relations, he designed and delivered over 20 educational programmes annually for the general public.

While a researcher in the Sociology Department at the London School of Economics, in 1998-2000 he was Managing Editor and later Senior Editor of the Los-Angeles based Armenian International Magazine (AIM). He was also a founding publisher and editor (1990-1995) of Window Quarterly, a magazine dealing with contemporary issues in the Armenian Diaspora and church.

Dr. Tchilingirian has received a number of honours from, among others, the U.S. Census Bureau, the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors, the New York State Council on Children and Families, and others.

He has authored over 100 articles published in Europe, the US and the Middle East, such as in Al-Raida (Institute for Women's Studies in the Arab World, Beirut); Armenian International Magazine (Los Angeles); Central Asian Survey (Oxford); Frontier (Oxford); Groong (online); Mirror-Spectator (Boston); Oxford Analytica (Oxford); War Report (Institute for Peace and War Reporting, London); Window Quarterly (San Jose), and others.