Ashot A. Melkonyan (born on 16 February, 1961 in Akhalkalak, Javakheti, Georgian SSR) is a historian, professor, and academic advisor at the Academy of Sciences of Armenia.

Since 2002, he has been the Director of the Institute of History of National Academy of Sciences of Armenia.

He is a member of the Association of historians of the European Educational Networking Institute (EENI) countries.

[1] Melkonyan is an author of several historical studies (including monographs and over 350 articles).

[2] The works are devoted mainly to the history of Armenia, the Armenian genocide, Javakheti, and Armenian–Georgian relations.