Armen Sarkissian
4th President of Armenia, Member of the Global Leadership Foundation, one of the directors of Eurasia House, physicist, diplomat, politician (born 1953)
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Armen Sarkissian is a physicist and diplomat who served as the fourth president of Armenia and has held various international leadership roles. He matters because he represents Armenia's engagement with global diplomacy and institutional leadership during a significant period in the country's modern history.
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- 1953-06-23
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- 1
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- Small States Club
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Armen Vardani Sarkissian (Armenian: Արմեն Վարդանի Սարգսյան; born 23 June 1953) is an Armenian politician, physicist, investor, businessman, and computer scientist who was the 4th president of Armenia from 2018 to 2022. He also was Prime Minister of Armenia from 1996 to 1997. He was the first president of post-Soviet Armenia born in the 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.
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1952 birthsAmbassadors of Armenia to BelgiumAmbassadors of Armenia to LuxembourgAmbassadors of Armenia to the European UnionAmbassadors of Armenia to the Holy SeeAmbassadors of Armenia to the NetherlandsAmbassadors of Armenia to the United KingdomBLP articles lacking sources from January 2022BLP articles lacking sources from October 2022Living peoplePermanent representatives of Armenia to NATO