 garo yegnukian senior fellow garo yegnukian is the ceo and corporate counsel of yegnukian realty corp a real estate development and management company and was past president of erebuni corp an automotive parts and accessories manufacturing and marketing company he holds a ba in business administration and marketing from pace university new york and a jd juris doctor of law from st john s law school new york born in armenia to repatriate parents from bulgaria emigrated to us in 1973 and repatriated back to armenia in 2009 had a life long interest and activism for the independence of armenia present interest is in human rights civil society international relations and politics of armenia  