Email: Adrian.Florea@glasgow.ac.uk

Email: b.bowring@bbk.ac.uk

Prof Bowring has experience in Azerbaijan dating back to 1986 when he first travelled to the country. In the early 2000s he worked with the Council of Europe on ‘Education Policy and Minorities’. He has worked extensively on bringing cases at the European Court of Human Rights. Prof Bowring has close connections with various interlocutors to ensure he is constantly up to date with the situation on the ground.

Please see the following document for a full breakdown of Prof Bowring’s work in Azerbaijan: Bill Bowring Experience in Azerbaijan.docx.

Email: r.turaeva@gmail.com

Dr Hoehne Turaeva Rano is a country expert and an academic with extensive fieldwork experience and providing expert reports (100+) for more than 40 firms in the UK, US, Netherlands, and Canada with areas of expertise such as but not limited to:

• Authentication documents originating from countries of expertise
• Country reports on the indicated countries of expertise
• Minority groups, religious groups
• Political, social and cultural groups, LGBT
• Organised crime and mafia, state crime
• Extremist and violent groups, including religious groups
• Human rights violations
• Women issues: honour killing
• Human trafficking
• Psychiatry and prison conditions
• Disadvantaged groups e.g. children, minorities, mentally ill, disabled, terminally ill
• Availability of medical services
• State structure, military and security services
• Drug dealing and trafficking

Email: og01@aub.edu.lb

Dr Ohannes Geukjian is a Lebanese citizen of Armenian descent. He received his PhD in 2005 from the Department of Peace Studies in Bradford University UK and wrote his dissertation on the Nagorno-Karabakh Conflict and Ethno-Territorial Conflict in the South Caucasus.  He is currently an Assistant Professor of Political Studies and Conflict Resolution at the American University of Beirut. He has also taught Human Rights at the Lebanese American University for many years. He conducted field work in Nagorno-Karabakh (Azerbaijan) and Armenia. His main focus of research is on Nagorno-Karabakh and Armenia. He has published several articles on the South Caucasus particularly Nagorno-Karabakh and Armenia. He has particular expertise in the areas of ethnicity, identity, nation, socio-economic discrimination and human rights. He also has an in-depth knowledge of the situation on the ground in Nagorno-Karabakh. He speaks Armenian, Arabic, as well as English.