Vahan Zanoyan is a global energy expert, writer, traveler, retired executive, and anti-trafficking advocate. Zanoyan has served as global energy consultant to numerous oil companies, banks, and other private and public organizations throughout the U.S., Europe, the Middle East, the Far East and Latin America. He has also served as a senior economic and oil policy advisor to several oil producing governments. He was President and CEO of PFC Energy for ten years, based in Washington, DC; the Chairman and Chief Executive of PFC Energy International, in Lausanne, Switzerland; and the founding Chief Executive Officer of First Energy Bank, based in Bahrain. He has also founded and ran several consulting services at Wharton Econometric Consulting Associates.

He has published two volumes of poetry in Armenian, (Վերադարձ, 2010 and Եզրէն Դուրս, 2011); and four novels in English, A Place Far Away (2013) and The Doves of Ohanavank (2014), both of which were inspired by a chance meeting with a very young victim of sex trafficking, The Sacred Sands (2016), which is based on his experiences as a global energy consultant; and Waking Noah’s Vines (2019).

Zanoyan was educated at The American University in Beirut and at the University of Pennsylvania. He supports several humanitarian causes, primarily aimed at stopping human trafficking, supporting victims of sex trafficking and domestic violence, and, more recently, promoting Armenian wines and wine tourism in Armenia.