External Affairs Officer of the World Bank Yerevan Office
Date and Place of Birth: February 29, 1956, Yerevan, Armenia

Education:

1974-1978 Yerevan State Institute of Russian and Foreign Languages after Bryusov; English Language Department; specialist in English philology

Career:

1998-present external affairs officer of the World Bank Yerevan Office
1996-1998 chief editor of “Ayzhm” weekly
1993-1996 deputy chief editor of “Golos Armenii” newspaper
1992-1993 executive secretary of “Novoye Vremya” newspaper
1991-1993 deputy chief editor of “Respublika Armenia” newspaper
1989-1992 correspondent of “Soyuz” weekly in Armenia (supplement to “Izvestiya” daily, Moscow)
1983-1989 correspondent, senior correspondent, head of section of “Communist” newspaper

Membership in Journalistic Associations and their Governing Bodies: 

Since 1985 Journalists Union of Armenia
Since 1995 Yerevan Press Club, Board member
Participation in Elective State Administration Bodies:
1995 candidate for RA National Assembly seat

Publications: “Communist”, “Golos Armenii”, “Respublika Armenia”, “Novoye Vremya”, “Ayzhm”, “Soyuz”, “Socialisticheskaya Industria”

Hobbies: sport (football), music, reading

Languages: Armenian, Russian, English

Marital Status: married with two children

Contact Information:

Tel. (374 10) 52 48 84 (office), (374 10) 58 26 64 (home), (374 91) 40 15 47 (mob.)
Fax: (374 10) 52 17 87
E-mail: vsargsyan@worldbank.org