Armen Sarkissian

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Armen Sarkissian
Արմեն Սարգսյան
Official portrait, 2018
4th President of Armenia
In office 9 April 2018 – 1 February 2022
Prime Minister	Serzh Sargsyan Nikol Pashinyan
Preceded by	Serzh Sargsyan
Succeeded by	Alen Simonyan (Acting)
5th Prime Minister of Armenia
In office 4 November 1996 – 20 March 1997
President	Levon Ter-Petrosyan
Preceded by	Hrant Bagratyan
Succeeded by	Robert Kocharyan
Personal details
Born	(1952-06-23) 23 June 1952 (age 71) Yerevan, Armenian SSR, Soviet Union
Political party	Independent
Spouse	Nouneh Sarkissian
Children	2
Education	Yerevan State University
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Armen Vardani Sarkissian (Armenian: Արմեն Վարդանի Սարգսյան;^[a]) (born 23 June 1953) is an Armenian^{[1][2][3][4][5][6]} politician, physicist, investor, businessman, and computer scientist who served as the 4th president of Armenia from 2018 to 2022.^[7] He also served as Prime Minister of Armenia from 1996 to 1997. He was the first president of post-Soviet Armenia born in former Armenian SSR.

Sarkissian has been one of the longest serving ambassadors of any country to the United Kingdom, a role to which he was first appointed in 1992-1996, before returning in 1998 and 2013. He was also Armenia’s maiden ambassador to the Vatican, the European Union, NATO, the Netherlands, Luxembourg and Belgium, and served as “Senior Ambassador” to Europe.

Sarkissian served as the first chairman of the Global Council on Energy Security at the World Economic Forum, with which he has had a long association. He has authored numerous scientific articles and is a speaker and commentator on international affairs. His op-eds and essays have appeared in publications such as the Times, the Financial Times, the Daily Telegraph, Time magazine, Newsweek, Hollywood Reporter and the Wall Street Journal.

In October 2022, Sarkissian announced that he was working on a new book titled The Small States Club: How Small Smart States can Save the World, to be published by Hurst Publishers. [1] [2]. In January 2023, The Small States Club was listed alongside forthcoming books by Martin Wolf and Peter Frankopan as one of the “15 books to look forward to in 2023” by the Diplomatic Courier. [3]

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