Tsovinar Vardanyan | |
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| Member of Parliament of the National Assembly of Armenia | |
| Assumed office 2018 | |
| Parliamentary group | My Step |
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| Born | 8 September 1980 Yerevan,Armenian SSR,Soviet Union |
| Alma mater | Yerevan State University |
Tsovinar Vardanyan (born 8 September 1980) is an Armenian economist and politician of the Civil Contract. Since 2018 she is a member of the National Assembly of Armenia.
Tsovinar Vardanyan was born in 1980 in Yerevan,Soviet Armenia. She studied economy at the Yerevan State University from where she graduated with a BSc in 2001 and an MSc in 2003. [1] While studying for her Masters,she was employed in different positions of the Central Bank of Armenia between 2002 and 2003. [1]
Between 2006 and 2014 she worked in financial institutions and between 2014 and 2019 she was in the executive leadership of several companies in Armenia. [1]
She was elected a Member of Parliament in the parliamentary elections of December 2018 for the Civil Contract within the My Step Alliance. [1] In May 2021,she was announced as a candidate for the My Step alliance [2] [3] and was re-elected in the snap parliamentary elections of June 2021. [4]
She was a leading force behind the introduction of paternal leave in Armenia in January 2021. [5] [6]
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