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.