Rouben Paul Adalian is the Director of the Armenian National Institute in Washington, D.C. Adalian received his Ph in history from the University of California, Los Angeles. He has taught at the Elliott School of International Affairs, George Washington University and Johns Hopkins University.
Adalian graduated from UCLA. He is the author of many scientific works and articles, including Historical Dictionary of Armenia and From Humanism to Rationalism: Armenian Scholarship in the Nineteenth Century, where Adalian "has provided a useful overview of an important topic which has not received its just attention in the English language".
He is the editor of Armenia and Karabagh Factbook, and associate editor of award-winning Encyclopedia of Genocide.