Tigran Sargsyan
| Tigran Sargsyan | |
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| Chairman of the board of the Eurasian Economic Commission | |
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Assumed office 1 February 2016 |
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| Preceded by | Viktor Khristenko |
| Armenian Ambassador to the United States | |
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In office 15 July 2014 – 12 January 2016 |
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| Preceded by | Tatoul Markarian |
| Succeeded by | Grigor Hovhannissian |
| Prime Minister of Armenia | |
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In office 9 April 2008 – 3 April 2014 |
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| President | Serzh Sargsyan |
| Preceded by | Serzh Sargsyan |
| Succeeded by | Hovik Abrahamyan |
| 3rd Chairman of the Central Bank of Armenia | |
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In office 3 March 1998 – 9 April 2008 |
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| President | Robert Kocharyan |
| Preceded by | Bagrat Asatryan |
| Succeeded by | Arthur Javadyan |
| Personal details | |
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29 January 1960 Kirovakan, Soviet Union (now Vanadzor, Armenia) |
| Political party | Republican Party |
| Children | Narine Abgar Markos |
| Alma mater | Leningrad Institute of Economics and Finance |
| Religion | Armenian Apostolicism |
Tigran Sureni Sargsyan (Armenian: Տիգրան Սուրենի Սարգսյան, born 29 January 1960) is an Armenian political figure who was Prime Minister of Armenia from 2008 to 2014. Previously he was Chairman of the Central Bank of Armenia from 1998 to 2008. After leaving office as Prime Minister, he served as Ambassador to the United States from 2014 to 2016, and he has been Chairman of the board of the Eurasian Economic Commission since 2016.
Tigran Sargsyan was born on 29 January 1960 in the city of Vanadzor, Armenian SSR. He was still a child, when his family moved to Yerevan, where in 1967–1977 Sargsyan received his primary education at Yerevan Pushkin School №8.
Tigran Sargsyan enters Yerevan Technical College № 14, which he finishes in 1978. Тhe same year Sargsyan enters Yerevan Institute of National Economy, Faculty of Economy and Planning. In 1980 he enters Leningrad Financial and Economic Institute after N. A. Voznesenskiy, which he graduated in 1983.
In 1987 Tigran Sargsyan gets his PhD at Leningrad Financial and Economic Institute, where he defends his thesis titled "Regional social-economic development planning on Armenia's example".
In 1994 Tigran Sargsyan studied on the Faculty of "Law-making Activity," at International Law Institute, Washington DC, USA.
In 1996–1997 he studied "Effective Banking Management" at Institute of Economic Development, World Bank, Washington, USA.
After receiving the PhD degree in economics he returned to Armenia in 1987 and became a senior researcher and head of the Group of International Economic Relations at the Research Institute of Economy and Planning of Armenia, where he worked until 1990.
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