Armen Sargsyan

Poor Sargsyan (Armenian Արմեն Սարգսյան / arms Sargsyan, in scientific transliteration arms Sargsyan, born June 23, 1953 in Yerevan ) is an Armenian physicist, computer scientist, entrepreneur, diplomat and politician. Sargsyan was dated 4 November 1996 to March 20, 1997 Prime Minister of Armenia.

Career

From 1976 to 1984, poor Sargsyan! Professor of physics at the Yerevan State University. Subsequently, he worked as Director of the Institute at the Faculty of theoretical physics with the modeling of complex systems with the aid of computers ( the Armenian SSR was a center of Soviet computer industry). At the University of Cambridge he worked from 1984 as a visiting fellow. Sargsyan bills itself as one of the original authors of the popular computer game Tetris, which was developed in 1985 at the Moscow Academy of Science. Overall Sargsyan has authored more than 50 scientific papers.

As 1991 Armenia gained its independence from the USSR, asked the then President Levon Ter -Petrossian Sargsyan to open the first Armenian Embassy in the western world in London. At the same time he took over the embassy to Belgium, the Netherlands, Luxembourg, the Vatican and the European Union and became deputy foreign minister.

From 4 November 1996 to 20 March 1997, he was Prime Minister of Armenia. As a focus of his work Sargsyan called administrative reforms, the fight against corruption, liberalization, privatization of the media, acceleration of market reforms and strengthening of democratic institutions. He was succeeded by Robert Kocharyan, who later became president.

In 1998 he was again appointed ambassador in London. From 1999 to 2000 he was Director of the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development. Since 2000, Sargsyan teaches at the Judge Business School at Cambridge University. He founded the non-governmental organization Eurasia House International for cooperation between the West, the CIS countries and China.

In addition to his scientific and political commitment, Sargsyan also operated commercially, among other things, he founded Cambridge Pharmaceuticals and is a consultant for companies such as Alcatel, Telefonica, BP, Finmeccanica and Bekaert. Since 2002 he is member of the World Economic Forum in Davos.

Awards

1997 Pope John Paul II awarded him the Gregoriusorden.

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