Vigen SARGSYAN

External Relations Officer, World Bank Yerevan Office

 Born: 29. 02.1956, Yerevan

Education

1974-1978 – Yerevan State Institute of Russian and Foreign Languages, English Department

 

Working experience 

From 1998 to the present – External Relations Officer of the World Bank Yerevan Office

1996-1998 – Editor of the “Now” weekly

1993-1996 – Deputy Editor-in-Chief of the “Voice of Armenia” newspaper

1992-1993 – Executive Secretary of the “Novoe Vremya” newspaper
1991-1993 – Deputy Editor-in-Chief of the “Republic of Armenia” newspaper
1989-1992 – Own correspondent of the “Soyuz” supplement-weeklies of the “Izvestia” newspaper (Moscow) in Armenia
1983-1989 – Correspondent, senior correspondent, department head of the “Kommunist” newspaper

Membership in journalistic organizations

 Since 1985 – Union of Journalists of Armenia

Since 1995 – Yerevan Press Club, member of the board of the YPC

 

Participation in elections of state bodies

1995 – Candidate for the National Assembly of the Republic of Armenia
Publications– “Communist”, “Voice of Armenia”, “Republic of Armenia”, “New Time”, “Now”, “Soyuz”, “Socialist Industry”

 

Interests– sports (football), music, reading

Knowledge of languages– Armenian, Russian, English

Marital– married, has two children
Address` Armenia, Yerevan, Republic Square, V. Sargsyan 9

Tel.` (374 10) 52 48 84, (374 91) 40 15 47
Fax.` (374 10) 52 17 87

E-mail: [email protected]