Hrant Bagratyan

Hrant Bagratyan
Հրանտ Բագրատյան
8th Prime Minister of Armenia
In office
2 February 1993 – 4 November 1996
Preceded by Khosrov Harutyunyan
Succeeded by Armen Sargsyan
Personal details
Born October 18, 1958(1958-10-18)
Yerevan, Armenia
Nationality Armenian
Political party Pan-Armenian National Movement

Hrant Bagratyan (Armenian: Հրանտ Բագրատյան) was born on October 18, 1958, in Yerevan, Armenia. He was the Prime Minister of Armenia from February 2, 1993 until November 4, 1996. He was a member of the Pan-Armenian National Movement party. He has PhD in Economics, author of more than 52 scientific articles and 7 books. In "The Society and the State" (Moscow, Izograph, 2000) he developed the theory of scientific technical cycles. Based on that he predicted regular centralisation and decentralisation of the management of the society. Particularly he predicted the centralisation of the management of the economy by 2010. Founder of a new direction in Economics: global macroeconomics or geoeconomics.

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Education

1975–1979 Yerevan State University, further-Institute of National Economy of Armenia. 1976-1978 Institute of National Economy of Armenia. Faculty of public law. Lawyer. 1983–1986 Post Graduate study at the Institute of Economy of Armenian Academy of Sciences. 1987 Defended theses on the theme “Material Stimulation of branch SRI (Scientific-Research Institute) and DD (Design Department). 1997 Recognized PhD candidate by International Monetary Fund, Washington D.C. 2005 Received PhD in Economics by Higher Attestation Committee of the Ministry of Education of Russian Federation, Moscow. 2010 Received PhD in Economics by Higher Attestation Committee of Ukraine, Kiev

Professional experience

1979-1979 Engineer in “Armelectromash” Yerevan. 1979-1981 Military Service Moscow. 1981-1983 Deputy Director at “Soyuzkhimreactiv” Yerevan. 1983-1986 Post Graduate Student at the Institute of Economy of Armenian Academy of Sciences. 1987–1989 Senior scientific worker at the Institute of Economy of Armenian Academy of Sciences. 1989-1990 Head of Division at the Institute of Economy of Armenian Academy of Sciences. 1990-1991 Minister of Economy of the Republic of Armenia, First Deputy of the Prime-Minister of Armenia. 1991-1991 Acting Prime Minister of Armenia. 1991-1993 Minister of Economy, Vice-Prime Minister of Armenia. 1993-1996 Prime Minister of the Republic of Armenia. 1996-1997 Consultant of the International Monetary Fund, energy expert. 1998-2006 Vice-President of the Board, Director of HR and Grape Purchase of Yerevan Brandy Company (Group Pernod Ricard). 2006-2007 VTB Armenia Bank, consultant. 2007-2009 Russian-Armenian University, professor (Yerevan, Armenia), Kiev International University (Kiev, Ukraine), professor at the University of Banking affairs of National Bank of Ukraine.

As Prime Minister of Armenia Hrant Bagratyan had a key role in the organization of successful military defence of Nagorno Karabagh in the war with Azerbaijan in 1993-1994. Thanks to this on May 12, a cease-fire was proclaimed and has largely held since.

Summary of qualifications

Ø the problems of labor motivation, HR management, health and life insurance; Ø land privatization; Ø public and administrative reforms in the emerging markets; Ø structural reforms in the energy sector of post soviet countries; Ø privatization of industrial enterprises; Ø liberalization of prices and trade Ø economic civilization; Ø scientific-technical progress; Ø global macroeconomics; Ø author of the theory of mega-economics. Leader of the Armenian economic reforms end of 20th century, defined by World Bank as one of the best among former Soviet Union republics and countries of Eastern Europe.

Publications

61 published works including 9 monographs 1. Monograph ‘Material Stimulation of scientific-technical progress in Production’, Yerevan, pub. House, Academy of Science ASR, 1989 (in Russian), 10.7 quires, Printed. 2. Monograph ‘Payments Arrears in the Gas and Electric Power Sectors of the Russian Federation and Ukraine ’, IMF, 1997, Washington (in English), 1.5 quires, Printed. 3. Monograph ‘State and Society’, Moscow, Izograf 2000 (in Russian), 23 quires, Printed. 4. Monograph ‘Land Reform: Issues of Theory and Practice’, 30 quires, Printed. 5. Monograph ‘Armenia on a Frontier of Centuries’, Yerevan, Nairi, 2003 (in Armenian), Printed. 6. Monograph `Integration of Ukraine and Russia in to European labor space', Kiev, UBS NBU, 2010 (in Ukrainian), printed.

Awards received

1995 “The men of the year” of ABI (American Biography Institute). 1996 “The men of the millennium” of ABI (American Biography Institute). 2006 By the independent journalists recognized as the best economic public man of Armenia during the whole period of the independency of the country in 1991-2006. Academic of Humanitarian Sciences at the Russian Academy of Sciences. Married (Bagratyan Nana), have two children: Bagratyan Ararat and Bagratyan Maria

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Preceded by
Khosrov Harutyunyan
Prime Minister of Armenia
1993-1996
Succeeded by
Armen Sargsyan