Ruben Rubinyan | |
Office: | Vice-president of National Assembly of Armenia |
Term Start: | 2 August 2021 |
Office1: | Head of Standing Committee on Foreign Relations National Assembly (Armenia) |
Native Name: | Ռուբեն Ռուբինյան |
Term End1: | 2 August 2021 |
Office3: | Special envoy for normalization of Armenia-Turkey relations |
Party: | Civil Contract |
Office2: | Member of the National Assembly |
Birth Date: | 1990 3, df=y |
Birth Place: | Yerevan, Armenian SSR, Soviet Union |
Alma Mater: | Yerevan State University |
Occupation: | Politician |
Ruben Rubinyan (Armenian: Ռուբեն Ռուբինյան; born 8 March 1990) is an Armenian politician, Vice President of the National Assembly of Armenia and former head of its Standing Committee on Foreign Relations.[1] He was appointed a special envoy from Armenia for normalization of Armenia-Turkey relations in December 2021, meeting his Turkish counterpart Serdar Kılıç on January 14, 2022. [2]
Ruben Rubinyan is the son of Karapet Rubinyan, the former Vice-President of the National Assembly of Armenia (1995-1998) and former member of the Pan-Armenian National Movement party executive committee (1991-1998).[3]
After graduating from Faculty of International Relations of Yerevan State University in 2010, he did a Master's degree at University College London (UCL) in Politics and Security in 2011 and Master's degree in European Studies at Jagiellonian University in Poland in 2012.