Alen Simonyan

Alen Simonyan
Ալեն Սիմոնյան
Vice President of National Assembly
Incumbent
Assumed office 15 January 2019 Serving with Lena Nazaryan and Vahe Enfiajyan
President	Ararat Mirzoyan
Preceded by	Eduard Sharmazanov Arpine Hovhannisyan Mikayel Melkumyan
Member of the National Assembly
Incumbent
Assumed office 16 May 2018
Member of the Yerevan City Council
In office 2017–2018
Personal details
Born	(1980-01-05) 5 January 1980 Yerevan, Armenian SSR, Soviet Union
Political party	Civil Contract
Children	Robert Simonyan and Vitoria Simonyan
Alma mater	Yerevan State University
Occupation	Politician Lawyer

Alen Simonyan (Armenian:Ալեն Սիմոնյան; born 5 January 1980) is an Armenian politician, Vice President of the National Assembly of Armenia and former member of Yerevan City Council.

Career

2000 – 2002 – Served in the Armed Forces of Armenia.

2000 – Graduated from the Faculty of Law of Yerevan State University.

2015 – Master's Degree of the Faculty of the Political Science of NAS of Armenia. Political scientist.

2002 – 2003 – Assistant to the Chairman of the Court of the First Instance of Ajapnyak and Davitashen Communities, Secretary of the Office.

2003 – 2004 – Converse Bank, Human Resources Manager.

2006 – 2007– Worked on "Radio FM" radio station:

2008 – Participated in "PR and Political Technologies" training courses organized by the European Education & Research Center.

2007–2012 – Cooperated with TV5 TV Company, Yerkir Media TV Company, "Armenia" TV Company as a producer, director. Producer of a number of musical, political, pre-election video clips, performance director.

2012 – 2018 – Editor-in-Chief of "Ararat" magazine.

2013 – 2018 – Editor-in-chief and founder of Ararat Media Group LLC (araratnews.am web site and "Ararat" magazine).

2013 – One of the organizers of the "Car free" civil protest against the rise in prices for transportation.

2013 – 2015 – Member of the "Civil Treaty" public-political union management board.

30 May 2015 – Elected; On 30 October 2016 – Re-elected member of the Civil Contract party Board.

2015 – Speaker of the "Civil Contract" party.

2017 – 2018 – Member of the Yerevan City Council in the composition of Way Out Alliance.

16 May 2018 – Elected Member of the National Assembly by the national electoral list of the Way Out Alliance.

9 December 2018 – Elected member of the National Assembly by the national electoral list of the My Step Alliance.

15 January 2019 – Elected Vice-President National Assembly

Author of a number of journalistic articles.