Harut Sassounian is the publisher of The California Courier, a weekly newspaper based in Glendale, California.  His weekly editorials dealing with Armenian social, economic and political issues are translated into a variety of languages and reprinted in scores of U.S. and overseas publications.

He is the Founder and President of the United Armenian Fund, a coalition of the seven largest Armenian-American charitable and religious organizations.  The U.A.F. has supplied over $500 million of humanitarian assistance to Armenia ever since the 1988 earthquake.

As Senior Vice President of Kirk Kerkorian’s Lincy Foundation, he has overseen the implementation of over $200 million of infrastructure-related projects in Armenia, as well as a $20 million loan program to small and medium-size business.

From 1978 to 1982, he worked for the Procter & Gamble Company in Geneva, Switzerland as an international marketing executive.

He served for 10 years as a non-governmental delegate on human rights at the United Nations in Geneva, Switzerland.  He played a leading role in the recognition of the Armenian Genocide by the UN Sub-Commission on Prevention of Discrimination and Protection of Minorities in 1985.

He has a Master’s Degree in International Affairs from Columbia University and an MBA from Pepperdine University.

His book, “The Armenian Genocide: The World Speaks Out, 1915-2005, Documents and Declarations” was republished in Arabic translation in Beirut, Lebanon in 2006.

He is the Executive Producer of the award-winning documentary, “Armenia: Bittersweet Freedom.”

He currently serves on the Leadership Council of the University of Southern California’s Institute of Armenian Studies, and the Board of Directors of Mayfield Senior School in Pasadena, California.  He served for many years on the Community Advisory Board of KCET-TV (PBS station in Los Angeles), the Board of the Armenian National Committee of America, Western U.S., and co-chaired an ad hoc committee appointed by the City of Glendale, California.

For his contributions to various humanitarian causes, he has been decorated by the President and Prime Minister of the Republic of Armenia, heads of the Armenian Apostolic and Catholic churches, as well as several charitable organizations.

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