Bella Kocharyan | |
Office1: | First Lady of Armenia |
President1: | Robert Kocharyan |
Term Label1: | In role |
Term Start1: | 9 April 1998 |
Term End1: | 9 April 2008 |
Predecessor1: | Lyudmila Ter-Petrosyan |
Birth Date: | 31 January 1954 |
Birth Place: | Stepanakert, Nagorno-Karabakh Autonomous Oblast, Soviet Union |
Nationality: | Armenian |
Spouse: | Robert Kocharyan |
Children: | Sedrak, Gayane, Levon |
Bella Kocharyan (Armenian: Բելլա Քոչարյան; born 31 January 1954, Stepanakert) is the wife of former Armenian President Robert Kocharyan and is the former First Lady of Armenia.[1]
Kocharyan graduated the Yerevan Medical Institute's Sanitary-Hygienic Medicine Department in 1978. She worked first as a doctor-bacteriologist and then as a doctor-epidemiologist at the sanitary-epidemiological station in Nagorno-Karabakh. She also held the position of the deputy chief physician of the regional sanitary-epidemiological station and during her final years there (1991-1993) she headed a department at the station.
Currently, she is the Honorary President of the All-Armenian Bone Marrow Donor Registry and the Honorary President of the Armenian Branch of Vladimir Spivakov's international benevolent fund Talented Children of Armenia.