TIGRAN SARGSIAN APPOINTED PRIME MINISTER OF ARMENIA
Noyan Tapan
April 9, 2008
YEREVAN, APRIL 9, NOYAN TAPAN. The Armenian president Serge Sargsian
on April 9 signed a decree on appointing Tigran Sargsian the prime
minister of the Republic of Armenia, NT was informed by the RA
president’s press service, which also provided the biography of the
newly appointed prime minister.
Tigran Sargsian was born on January 29, 1960, in the city of
Kirovakan (currently Vanadzor). He studied at Yerevan school No
8 after Pushkin in 1967-1977, at Yerevan technical school No 14 in
1977-1978 and at Yerevan Institute of National Economy, Department of
Planning and Economy in 1978-1980. T. Sargsian studied at Leningrad
Financial-Economic Institute in 1980-1983, graduating from it with an
honors degree. In 1983-1987, he attended the post-graduate courses
of this institute, after which he defended a Ph.D. thesis entitled
"The Planning of the Socioeconomic Development of the Region by the
Example of Armenia" and received a scientific degree of Candidate of
Economic Sciences.
A title of Honorary Doctor of Yerevan State University of Economics
was conferred on T. Sargsian on December 2, 2005.
In 1987-1990, T. Sargsian worked as a seniour researcher at the
Research Institute of Economics and Planning, in 1988-1993 he was
the chairman of the Republican Council of Young Specialists and
Scientists. In 1993-1994, he taught at Yerevan State University,
was a deputy of the Supreme Council of the RA, served as chairman
of the Supreme Council’s Standing Committee on Financial, Credit
and Budgetary Issues. In 1995-1998, he was the chairman of the
Association of Armenian Banks, in 1995-2008 he worked as director of
the Institute for Research of Transitional Society. T. Sargsian was
appointed the chairman of the Central Bank of Armenia on March 3,
1998, while in 2005 he was re-appointed to that post. In 2005-2007,
he was the chairman of the Interstate Bank’s board.
T. Sargsian is married and has a daughter and a son.
He is the author of over 20 scientific articles.
He is a non-party man.
He has the miliary rank of reserve officer.