Samvel Martirosyan is a specialist in information and cybersecurity, media literacy, countering disinformation, and strategic communications. He has extensive professional, research, and teaching experience, working with public and private sector organizations, international institutions, and civil society organizations.
He currently serves as Co-founder and Director of CyberHUB-AM, Director of the ArmSec Foundation, Dean of the Digital Marketing Faculty at Ardy Academy, Chief Information Security Officer at eqwefy, and Program Manager at Media Diversity Institute – Armenia. He is also a member of the Internet Governance Council of the Republic of Armenia.
Since 2020, he has collaborated with Armenian Public Television as the creator and host of the Media Literacy program. Previously, he served as CEO of Hoory, worked as a strategic consultant for SoftConstruct, and served as a disinformation and strategic communications expert at IRI Armenia.
From 2006 to 2018, he worked as a senior information and cybersecurity expert at the Information Research Center of the Noravank Foundation. He also led the Armenian country program under the TACIS initiative Development of Electronic Societies in the South Caucasus and worked as a program manager at the Institute for Civil Society NGO.
Samvel Martirosyan has extensive teaching experience. From 2011 to 2020, he lectured at the Faculties of Journalism and Sociology at Yerevan State University. From 2011 to 2019, he also taught at the PR and Information Faculty of the Yerevan State Linguistic University. In addition, he worked as a trainer for the Skill educational platform and the Alternative Resources in Media program. From 2017 to 2019, he was the creator and host of the Media Literacy program on Para TV.
He studied at the Faculty of Mathematics at Yerevan State University, earning a bachelor's degree between 1990 and 1995. From 1995 to 1997, he continued his studies at the Faculty of Mathematics of the State Engineering University of Armenia, earning a master's degree. From 1997 to 1999, he obtained an engineer-researcher qualification at the same university.
His main areas of expertise include cybersecurity, information security, media literacy, disinformation analysis, strategic communications, and digital education.
