Hripsime Grigoryan | |
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Հռիփսիմե Գրիգորյան | |
Member of the National Assembly of Armenia | |
Assumed office 2018 | |
Parliamentary group | My Step |
Personal details | |
Born | 18 September 1988 Yerevan,Armenian SSR,Soviet Union |
Political party | Civil Contract |
Alma mater | Central European University |
Hripsime Grigoryan (born 18 September 1988) is an Armenian politician of the Civil Contact. She is a member of the National Assembly of Armenia since 2018.
Hripsime Grigoryan was born in Yerevan,Soviet Armenia in 1988. [1] From 2005 onwards,she studied international relations and diplomacy at the Yerevan State University from where she graduated with BSc in 2009. [1] She followed up on her studies at the Central European University in Budapest,Hungary,obtaining a Master's degree in political sciences in 2011. [1] After she deepened her understanding on political processes in seminars of Democracy and Federalization in Switzerland and Sweden,taking part as a research assistant in political science for the "Varieties of Democracy" program of the University of Gothenburg between 2012 and 2017. [1]
Between 2013 and 2018,Grigoryan occupied several offices in institutions like the US embassy in Armenia,the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE) or the Tourism department of the Armenian Ministry of Economic Development. [1]
Her political interest began to take form as she become a Member of the Armenian Youth Initiative Now in 2008. [1] In December 2018,she was elected into the National Assembly of Armenia [1] in which she became the head of the Tourism Committee. [2] Besides,Grigoryan is an alternate member to the Parliamentary Assembly of the OSCE. [3] In May 2021 it was announced that Grigorian was an electoral candidate for the Civil Contract within the My Step Alliance [4] and was re-elected in the Parliamentary Election of June 2021. [5]
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