Karen Karapetyan

Karen Karapetyan
Կարեն Կարապետյան
Karapetyan in 2018
14th Prime Minister of Armenia
In office
23 April 2018 – 8 May 2018
Acting
PresidentArmen Sarkissian
Preceded bySerzh Sargsyan
Succeeded byNikol Pashinyan
In office
13 September 2016 – 17 April 2018
Acting: 9 April 2018 – 17 April 2018
PresidentSerzh Sargsyan
Armen Sarkissian
Preceded byHovik Abrahamyan
Succeeded bySerzh Sargsyan
First Deputy Prime Minister of Armenia
In office
18 April 2018 – 8 May 2018
Prime MinisterSerzh Sargsyan
Preceded byposition established
Succeeded byArarat Mirzoyan
Mayor of Yerevan
In office
17 December 2010 – 15 November 2011
Preceded byGagik Beglaryan
Succeeded byTaron Margaryan
Personal details
Born (1964-08-14) 14 August 1964 (age 60)
Stepanakert, Nagorno-Karabakh AO, Azerbaijan SSR, Soviet Union
Children3
Alma materYerevan State University

Karen Vilhelmi Karapetyan (Armenian: Կարեն Վիլհելմի Կարապետյան; born 14 August 1963[1]) is an Armenian politician who was Prime Minister of Armenia from September 2016 until April 2018. He was previously Mayor of Yerevan, the capital, from 2010 to 2011. He was appointed prime minister by President Serzh Sargsyan on 13 September 2016 and held office until 9 April 2018. Karapetyan served as first deputy prime minister from 17 April to 23 April 2018, when he was appointed acting prime minister following the resignation of Prime Minister Serzh Sargsyan.[2] He held this position until the election of Nikol Pashinyan as prime minister on 8 May 2018.

  1. ^ Newly appointed Armenian PM Karen Karapetyan’s biography on https://armenpress.am
  2. ^ Обязанности премьера Армении возложены на Карена Карапетяна [Duties of the Prime Minister of Armenia assigned to Karen Karapetyan]. Interfax (in Russian). 23 April 2018. Retrieved 13 December 2019.