ArmInfo.On March 4, the National Assembly of Armenia elected Leon Sahakyan, former Advisor to the NA Speaker Alen Simonyan, as the 5th member of the Board of the Central Bank of the Republic of Armenia by secret ballot. 70 out of 107 MPs took part in the voting, 69 supported the candidacy, 1 voted "against".
Levon Sahakyan's candidacy for the position of a member of the Board of the Central Bank of the Republic of Armenia was nominated by the ruling faction of the National Assembly "Civil Contract". Levon Sahakyan (born in 1984, Yerevan), in 2006 he graduated from the financial faculty with a degree in accounting and auditing from the Armenian State University of Economics (ASUE), Ph.D. Since 2015, Associate Professor of the Department of Financial Accounting of the Armenian State University of Economics. Worked in the private sector as a chief accountant, financial deputy and advisor to the director, executive director of various LLCs. Since 2019, he began his career in the National Assembly, first as an adviser to the Deputy Chairman, and then as an assistant to a deputy. Since August 2021, he has been the First Deputy Head of the Parliament's Staff, and since September last year, he has been an adviser to the NA Speaker. The Board of the Central Bank consists of the Chairman of the Central Bank, two of his deputies, five members of the Council. Five members of the Board of the Central Bank are elected by the National Assembly of the Republic of Armenia for a term of six years. Members of the Boardof the Central Bank may not hold other positions in the Central Bank.
