Education
1996: Armenian - French Governance (Management) Center. Specialist of Management Marketing and Banking
1992 - 1995: PhD student, Chair of Political Science, Faculty of International relations, Yerevan State University
1994: Public Policy and Management spe¬cial courses at the American University of Armenia
1987 - 1992: Faculty of Philosophy and Sociology of Yerevan State University

Academic degree
PhD “Methodological Analyzes of Political Decision-making”. 1995, Political Science

Professional experience
1984 - 1985: Yerevan Electric Lamps Factory as a tester
1985 - 1987: service in the Soviet Army, YSU department of political sciences
1993 - 1995: Scientific worker in the Division of Social Sciences of the Scientific Research Institute of Pedagogical Sciences at the Ministry of Education and Science of the Republic of Armenia
1996 - 1998: Commentator in the Sociopolitical Programs Division of the State Television and Radio Department
1996 - 1999: Head of “Horizon” Center for Legal and Political Strategic Studies
1998 - 2000: General Editor of the Foreign Broadcasts Office at the Armenia National Radio
2000 - 2002: Vice President of the French University in Armenia
2000 - 2011: Lecturer at the French University in Armenia
2008 - 2010: Minister of Emergency Situations of the Republic of Armenia
2002 - 2003: Member of the Standing committee of State and Legal Affairs of the National Assembly
2003 - 2007: Deputy of the National Assembly
2003 - 2006: Chair of the Standing Committee on Defense, National Security and Internal Affairs of the National Assembly, then member of the same committee. Deputy Chair of the Ad-hoc Committee on Matters of Integration in European Structures of the National Assembly, Head of the NATO Parliamentary Assembly Delegation of the National Assembly of the Republic of Armenia, Co - Chair of the Parliamentary Assembly of Francophonie Delegation of the National Assembly of the Republic of Armenia
2007 - 2008 - Deputy of the National Assembly, member of the Standing Committee on European integration issues, Member of Armenia-European Union Parliamentary Cooperation inter-Parliamentary Committee, Member of National Assembly Delegation to PACE
2012 - 2016: Deputy of the National Assembly. Rule of Law Party Vice-President
From 2017: Rector of the Academy CSTO and EURASES

Academic courses
“Theory of National Security”, “Political Processes, Political Decision-making Technologies”, “Methods of Political Decision-making”

Scale of professional interests
Issues of National Security, Political Processes, Political Decision-making Technologies
and Methods, Political Marketing, Strategic Marketing, Theory of Lobbying

Professional membership
2008: Member of the Council of Trustees of the European Regional Educational Academy.
2010: First Deputy President of the Armenians’ Union in Russia

Languages
Armenian, Russian, French

Awards received
Order of Legion of Honour, France, Order of Alexander Nevsky, RA Departmental Medals