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Yerevan, Erevan, 0010
Armenia

Armenuhi Kyureghyan

Docent at Informatics chair, Vanadzor State University

Armenuhi Kyureghyan was born in Vanadzor, Armenia. After graduating from middle school at the age of 14, she entered the faculty of Applied Mathematics in Yerevan State University. Armenuhi had her postgraduate studies at the Computing Center of National Academy of Sciences of Armenia. She received a science degree in Physico-mathematical sciences and became the youngest women-candidate of science in that sphere. She is also a docent.Since 1992 Armenuhi Kyureghyan has been working in the Informatics chair of Vanadzor State University, as a docent. Since 2004 she is the head of “Leadership school for women” regional center in Lori. She is the author of 2 educational and 20 professional books and more than 25 articles covering social and political spheres. Since 2006 she is member of Armenian Revolutionary Federation and a representand a representative of «Gugarq» committee in Vanadzor. And starting from 2016 Armenuhi is a City Council member. She is married and has three kids.

Gayane Abrahamyan

Journalist

Gayane Abrahamyan is an award winning journalist raising mainly human rights issues, especially women’s rights, gender issues, domestic violence, children’s rights, also specialized in social, economic and political issues. She started her journalistic career at the Armenianow.com internet magazine, covering social fields, raising issues of people suffering from poverty and injustice, as she believed that using the power of journalism it would be possible to bring in some change in people’s lives, provide solutions or at least encourage members of the public to stand up for their rights and not to see solutions to their problems in emigration. During the past ten years, she has also been a correspondent of Eurasianet.org in Armenia, she regularly contributes to The Guardian, but more actively is working on a TV program that she created on Yerkir Media TV channel – weekly presenting the most complex problems and issues existing in the country through discussions with experts.

Marianna Pohgosyan

Ballerina at A. Spendiaryan Opera and Ballet National Theatre

Marianna Pohgosyan was born in Yerevan. In 2007 she graduated from French University of Armenia having her BA in Law and Political Science. Meanwhile, in 2004 was awarded entry to IREX student exchange program to do undergraduate studies in International Relations at Utica College, NY. In 2008 has perused and obtained her MA degree in Advanced European and International Studies from Institut Européen des Hautes Etudes Internationales (IEHEI), Nice, France. Then, in 2009 she was entitled as Policy Officer to European and International Organizations. In 2013 her Monograph Happiness vs GDP got published in Germany by Lambert Academic Publishing. Currently Marianna works at the A. Spendiaryan Opera and Ballet National Theatre as a ballerina as well as at the Small Theatre by Yerevan National Aesthetics Centre as an artist, dancer and trainer being one of the founders of the first inclusive practices in Armenia.

Victoria Aslanian

CEO of ArmAs

Victoria Aslanian was born in Yerevan in 1982, immigrating to the U.S. in 1990. She studied Art History in Florence, Italy, and continued her education at UC Berkeley where she received her BA degree. In 2009, she repatriated to Armenia with her two sons to partake in her father's vision and venture which involved developments in the agricultural, wine and brandy, and tourism sectors.Victoria received the Best Brand by a Woman Entrepreneur award from the prime minister of Armenia in 2014, and has parlayed the international success of their brand as a platform to promote The Renaissance of Armenian Wine, presenting Armenia's revived wine legacy at The Council of Europe in Strasbourg in 2013, at The Davos du'Vin, Italy, in 2014 & 2015, at AGBU's 88th General Assembly "Improving Armenians' International Standing" in 2015, as a guest lecturer at AUA, "Starting Innovative Wineries in Armenia," as well as at wine and tourism promotional events in Los Angeles, Berlin, Brussels etc.

Yeva Hyusyan

Co-Founder and CEO of SoloLearn

Yeva is the Co-Founder and CEO of SoloLearn, a global community of mobile code learners engaged in the most entertaining way to learn and simply hangout with each other in the coding world. With about 3M coder profiles, SoloLearn is becoming a popular spot for young people to improve their competitive ranking in today’s world. A varied background – ranging from startups (a founder of a startup accelerator), to corporate sales (Microsoft GM), to development assistance (US Government) – has made it certain that anyone’s passion can be encouraged by making things fun! Yeva holds an MBA from Maastricht School of Management (the Netherlands) and is an Executive Program graduate from Stanford University’s Graduate School of Business. She is married and has two daughters and a son. She loves travel, sunny weather, and positive people.