Friday, April 17 2020 13:31
Alina Hovhannisyan

Martin Galstyan will become the new chairman of the Central Bank of  Armenia

Martin Galstyan will become the new chairman of the Central Bank of  Armenia

ArmInfo.  Artur Javadyan will  be replaced by Martin Galstyan as chairman of the Central Bank of  Armenia, whose candidacy was approved on April 17 by secret ballot in  the RA National Assembly by a majority of the MPs.

In particular, 119 MPs took part in the voting, of which 104 voted in  favor of the nominated candidate and 15, respectively, against.  Voting data was presented by the Chairman of the Counting Commission  of the National Assembly of the Republic of Armenia Vahagn  Hovakimyan.

To recall, the "My step" faction suggested the post of the new head  of the Central Bank of Armenia Martin Galstyan. The term of office of  the current head of the Central Bank of the Republic of Armenia,  Artur Javadyan, ends in early June this year, and this is the second  term of his tenure. REFERENCE: Martin Galstyan born in 1978. He  graduated from the Faculty of Economics of YSU, graduate school,  Ph.D. In the late 2000s, he studied at the School of Management after  John F. Kennedy of Harvard University, receiving a master's degree in  public administration. He completed several refresher and advanced  training courses in the areas of financial market analysis, financial  planning and strategy, monetary policy theory, economic theory and  practice.

M. Galstyan has experience teaching at the Business School of the  American University of Armenia on the subject of industry and  competitive analysis. Before being appointed a member of the Council  of the Central Bank of the Republic of Armenia in September 2018, M.  Galstyan was the head of the Statistics Department, and since  February 2015 Head of the Training and Research Center of the Central  Bank in Dilijan.