Tigran Torosyan
was born on April 14, 1956 in Yerevan. In 1973-1978 he studied at the
Faculty of Radio-Electronics of Yerevan Polytechnic (Engineering
University) Institute, at the same time in 1976-1978 - at the faculty
of Social Specialties. After graduating from the Institute he
received his degree as an engineer in electronic technical engineering
and technical translator (French language).
From 1978 he started to
work in Yerevan Scientific Research Institute of Mathematical Machines
first as an engineer, then leading engineer. In 1988-1995 he worked as
head of subdivision and leading scientific associate.
In 1990 he defended his
thesis and received his degree of Technical Sciences PhD. He holds
patents on 10 inventions and has written more than 30 scientific
works.
In 1995 he was engaged in
the studies of Political Sciences. He has written a monograph
(Post-Soviet Transformation of the Social System), more than two
dozens of scientific and more than two hundred analytical articles,
which were published in Armenian and foreign periodicals and
collections. In 2006 he defended his thesis and received doctoral
degree of Political Sciences.
In 1996-1998 he was a
member of the RA Central Electoral Commission, in 1997-1998
editor-in-chief of the official newspaper of Hanrapetakan/Republican
party Hanrapetakan.
On May 30, 1999 he was
elected as a deputy of the National Assembly of the Republic of
Armenia from Miasnutiun/Unity Alliance electoral roll, which formed
the Republican Party and Zhoghovrdakan/People’s party. In 1999-2003 he
was Vice President of the RA National Assembly. In 2001-2003 he was
the Chairman of the Ad hoc Committee on Constitutional Amendments of
the National Assembly.
On May 25, 2003 he was
reelected by the proportional system from the Republican Party of
Armenia/RPA. And on June 12, 2003 he was elected Vice President of the
National Assembly. From 2003-2006 he is Chairman of the Ad-hoc
Committee on Matters of Integration in European Structures of the
National Assembly, head of the Armenian delegation in the
Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe.
On June 1, 2006 he was
elected President of the National Assembly of the Republic of Armenia.
From 2004-2007 he was
Vice Chairperson of PACE European Democrat Group, from 2006-2007 -
Vice Chairperson of the Committee on the Honouring of Obligations and
Commitments by Member States of the Council of Europe (Monitoring
Committee).
He was a member of RPA
faction of the National Assembly.
On May 12, 2007 he was
elected as a deputy of the National Assembly by the proportional
system from the Republican Party of Armenia/RPA.
On June 7, 2007 he was
elected President of the National Assembly of the Republic of Armenia.
From 1993 he is a member
of RPA and the party board. In 1998-2005 he is a Deputy Chairman of
RPA board, from 2005 – RPA Deputy Chairman.
In 2006 he was honored
with the medal For Services Rendered To Fatherland of the Republic of
Armenia, in 2007 – with the order Surb Mesrop Mashtots of the Nagorno
Karabakh Republic.
He is married and has à
daughter.
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