K.M. Greg Sarkissian

K.M. Greg Sarkissian was one of the founding members of the Zoryan Institute. He has been the chief strategist of the Institute since 1990 and has been President since 1995. He helped establish the Genocide and Human Rights University Program with the University of Toronto. As the Director of Economic Affairs of the Institute’s two journals, he initiated the partnerships with the University of Toronto Press for Diaspora: A Journal of Transnational Studies and Genocide Studies and Prevention, followed by Genocide Studies International. Greg Sarkissian is a graduate of the University of California. He has been the founder and president of Byron Hill Group Companies since 1985, of Servocraft Limited in Canada since 1982 and of Yorkbridge Plastics Packaging since 1996. In 2019, he became a recipient of the Order of Canada, one of the country’s highest honours systems.