KAREN KARAPETYAN APPOINTED HEAD OF STAFF OF THE PRESIDENT’S OFFICE
armradio.am
30.09.2008 13:13
On September 29 the President of Armenia, Serzh Sargsyan, signed
a decree on appointing Karen Karapetyan to the post of the Head of
Staff of the Office to the President.
Karen Karapetyan was born on March 2, 1961 in the village of
Gharakilisa in the Kalinino region.
Mr. Karapetyan graduated from the Yerevan Polytechnic Institute in
1982 and from Rostov on Don (Russia) Higher Political School in 1989
with excellence.
He is an engineer-mechanic, political scientist and economist.
>From 1982-1983 he was a teacher in Kalinino region. From 1983-1985
he worked first as an engineer and later senior engineer in a hail
fighting team. From 1985-1987 he worked first as a head of the
rural department of LCYU Tachir Regional Committee and later as its
secretary. From 1988-1989 he was an Instructor in Tashir Regional
Committee of the Communist Party of Armenia.
He spent the next four years as the general director of SIK Industrial
and Commercial Company (Rostov on Don) and from 1993-1999 he was
the director of Tashir Silver Plates Factory and later president of
the board.
1995-1999 was his first term as a deputy in the NA (electoral district
# 139) and he was on the NA Standing Committee on State and Legal
Affairs and was also a member of the Reforms Deputy Group.
1999-2003 was his second term as a depu ty in the NA (electoral
district # 50) and he served in the NA Standing Committee on
Financial-Credit, Budgetary and Economic Affairs, was the secretary
of the Stability Deputy Group and later became the leader of the
"People’s Deputy" Deputy Group.
>From 2003-2007 he was a deputy in the NA (electoral district #
39). He was a member of the NA Standing Committee on Financial-Credit,
Budgetary and Economic Affairs. He was the head of the "People’s
Deputy" Deputy Group.
On May 12, 2007 he was elected a deputy of the National Assembly by
the proportional system from the Republican Party of Armenia/RPA.
>From May 2007 he headed the Republican faction of the National
Assembly.
Mr. Karapetyan is married and has three children.