PRESS RELEASE
April 9, 2008

Tigran Sargsyan Appointed New Armenian Prime Minister

On April 9, following his inauguration, President Serzh Sargsyan appointed Tigran Sargsyan as the new Prime Minister of the Republic of Armenia. Please find below Prime Minister Sargsyan’s biographical data.

Career Experience

2005, Re-appointment to the office of RA Central Bank Chairman on March 2
1998, Office of RA Central Bank Chairman assumed on March 3
2005-2007, Chairman of Interstate Bank Council
1995-2008, Institute of Transition Society Studies, director
1995-1998, Armenian Bankers' Association, chairman
1993-1994, Yerevan State University, reader in banking management,
1990-1995, MP, chairman of RA NA standing commission on financial-crediting and fiscal affairs, Member of the Presidium of the Supreme Council
1990-1991, Coordinator of standing seminars for banking specialists on economic reform issues
1988-1993, Republican Council of Young Specialists and Scientists, chairman
1987-1990, R&D Institute of Economy and Planning, senior research worker, head of the international economic relations unit

Education

• 1977-1978, Technical College No. 14, Yerevan
• 1978-1980, Institute of National Economy in Yerevan, Planning and Economy Department
• 1980-1983, The N. A. Voznesensky Financial-Economic Institute in Leningrad (St. Petersburg), Russia, graduated with honors diploma
  1983-1987, Post-graduate course at the N.A. Voznesensky Financial-Economic Institute, thesis defended on the theme of "Regional social-economic development planning on Armenia's example," degree of Master of Economic Sciences
  1994, "Law-making activity," International Institute of Law, Washington, USA
  1996-1997, "Effective Banking Management," Institute of Economic Development, World Bank, Washington, USA
  2005, title of honorary doctor of Yerevan State Economics University received on December 2

Other Information

• Holder of military rank of reserve officer.
  Author of over 20 scientific articles.

Party Membership

• Non-Partisan

Prime Minister Sargsyan was born on January 29, 1960 in Vanadzor.
He is married, and has a son and a daughter.