Armen Harutyunyan

Who is Armen Harutyunyan?

Armen Harutyunyan is the former ombudsman of Armenia and the current Regional Representative of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights in Central Asia. He took office in February 2011.

Harutyunyan was born in 1964 in Yerevan. He holds law degrees from Yerevan State University, the Institute of State and Law of the Academy of USSR and the Academy of Public Administration of the Russian Federation. In 1989-2002 he lectured in law at Yerevan State University; from 1997 he was legal advisor at the Constitutional Court, and in the constitutional reform of 2005 he was a representative of former President Robert Kocharian. In 2002-06 he was rector of the Public Administration Academy.