Born on June 15, 1961 Vanadzor.

1984 - Graduated from the faculty of Mechanics and Mathematics of the Yerevan State University.

1992 - Postgraduate of Computing Center of NAS of the Republic of Armenia.

1998 - Graduated from the Faculty of Economics and Law of the Yerevan State Institute of Foreign Economic Relations and Management. Mathematician. Economist. Candidate of Technical Sciences.

Doctor, Professor of Economics.

Since 1985 - USSR Master of sport in boxing.

Reservist. Senior lieutenant in reserve.

1978 - 1979 - Worker in  “Kinshintrest.”

1980 -1984 - Worker in Yerevan Automobile Plant “Yeraz.” (Parallel to the education).

1984 - 1988 - Scientific worker at Vanadzor Scientific Industrial Union (SIU) “Indautomation.”

Since 1986 - Lecturer at H. Tumanyan State Pedagogical Institute in Vanadzor (VSPI).

1992 - Deputy Director of Vanadzor Furniture Industrial Union (IU).

1993 - General Director of Vanadzor Furniture Industrial Union.

1995 - Head of VSPI Chair of Computer Science and Economics and Mathematical Methods and Design.

2009 - Elected member of the Council of Public TV and Radio Company of the Republic of Armenia.

2011 - 2012 - Deputy Chair of the Council of Public TV and Radio Company of the Republic of Armenia.

1988 - Elected Secretary of the VSPI Committee of LYU.

1990 - 1996 - Elected Deputy of Vanadzor City Council.

2005 - Founded the charitable NGO "Hanun Gugarats Ashkharhi."

Since 2006 - Head of the unity of compatriotic associations in Armenia.

Since 2011 - Member of the RPA.

1995 - 1999 - Member of the National Assembly (electoral district #60). Member of the Standing Committee on Financial-Credit, Budgetary and Economic Affairs of the National Assembly.

Representative of the National Assembly of the Republic of Armenia to the Inter-parliamentary Assembly of CIS countries. Member of the “Reforms” deputy group. Non - partisan.

1999 - 2003 - Member of the National Assembly (electoral district #46). Member of the Standing Committee on Financial-Credit, Budgetary and Economic Affairs of the National Assembly.

Member of the faction “Unity,” then he was not included in any factions or deputy groups. Later a member of the “People's Deputy” deputy group. Non-partisan.

2003 - 2007 - Member of the National Assembly (electoral district #37). Deputy Chair of the Standing Committee on Financial-Credit, Budgetary and Economic Affairs of the National Assembly. Member of the Committee of EU-Armenia Parliamentary Cooperation. Secretary of the “People's Deputy” parliamentary group. Non partisan.

2012 - 2017 - Elected Member of the National Assembly by the proportional electoral system from the RPA party. Member of the Standing Committee on Economic Affairs of the National Assembly.

May 7, 2014 - May 18, 2017 - Head of the “Republican” (RPA) faction. Member of the RPA faction and Executive Body.

April 2, 2017 - Elected Member of the National Assembly by the district electoral list of the electoral district #9 of the RPA.

2007 - Awarded the Medal “Our Friend” by the compatriotic union “Nig Aparan.”

2010 - Awarded the Jubilee Medal of “Union of Armenians in Russia - 10 years.”

2011 - Awarded the Medal “Chatholikos of all Armenians Vazgen I.”

2013 - Awarded the commemorative  Medal “Karabakh Movement.”

2013 - Awarded the “YVU 20 Years” Jubilee Medal of the Republic of Armenia.

2014 - Awarded the Medal of Hounor by the Parliament of Romania.

2014 - Awarded the Medal of Hounor by the Slovak Republic “Slovak National Party.”

2016 - Awarded the "Fridtjof Nansen" commemorative Gold Medal.

2016 - Awarded the second rank Medal “For Services Contributed to Motherland.”

2010 - Honorable citizen of Margahovit.

2014 - Honorable citizen of Shahumyan community.

The author of four books and more than fifty scientific works.

Married, with four children.