Dr. GRIGORI  VAHANYAN
 
  
Address:     
M. Bagramian av. 10,   YEREVAN 375019     
REPUBLIC OF ARMENIA   
Tel.: (3742) 58-81-88, Fax: (3742) 58-81-88     
E-mail: gregor@concourt.am     
http://www.concourt.am,  http://www.iatp.am     
EDUCATION:      
- 1970-1975 Yerevan Polytechnic Institute, M. Sc. 1975 Specialty: Diplomatic Engineering, Electromechanic   
 
- 1977-1980 Moscow Central Institute of Automatic Systems, aspirant, Computer Graphics in Management (Candidate of technical sciences)     
 
- 1987-1989 Academy of Management (Moscow), doctorant "Information and Computers Science in Management". Dr., 1991. Specialty: Economic and Social Modelling,  Informatics,  Information Technology 
   
Current position:  IATP 2 Armenia Program Coordinator     
  
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:   - 1975-1977 Yerevan Polytechnic Institute, Senior Assistant, adjunct      

- 1977-1982 Central Institute of Automatic Systems (Moscow), aspirant, Junior, Senior Research Assistant      

- 1982-1991 Professor of CAD/CAM Yerevan Polytechnic Institute      

- 1982-1983 Research Institute of Management under Yerevan Municipality,  
Head of Computer Graphics Department 

- 1983-1987 YCL of Armenia, Head of Young Scientists Department, Computer Science application in Education (Republican Project Coordinator) 

- 1991-1992, 1995-1996 Armenian Republican Children Library, Deputy-director, Head of the Electronic Library and Multimedia Center 

- 1988-1997 Armenian Republican Telecommunication "Search" Center, Head of the Center, HaykNet (Armenian Multilingual Electronic Database for Internet) Project Coordinator  
(E-mail: hayknet@arminco.com,  URL: http://www.arminco.com/hayknet)      

- 1997- 1999 Head of the Department of the International Relations of the Constitutional Court of the Republic of Armenia and Head of the Legal Informational and Computer Center  
(E-mail: gregor@concourt.am,  URL: http://www.concourt.am)      

- 1999- Advisor of the Constitutional Court of the Republic of Armenia,  
present IATP 2 Armenia Program Coordinator (URL: http://www.iatp.am)    

- 1999 Professor of Art Management Department of Yerevan State Academy of Fine Arts 
(URL: http://www.iatp.am/AFA)

 MEMBERSHIP IN INTERNATIONAL AND NATIONAL PROFESSIONAL ORGANISATIONS:   
 - 1981-1987 Member of the Council of young scientists and specialists of USSR 
- 1983-present Member of the the Board of the Section "System technics and Constructions" of Scientific Counsel on Complex problem "Cybernetics" of the Academy of Sciences of USSR    

- 1985-1990 Member of the Council Armenian Branch of Soviet Sociology Association    

- 1989-1992 Armenian Branch of International Computer Club, President    

- 1990-1994 Journal of Social and Evolutionary Systems (JAI PRESS INC. London, England), Associate Editor    

- 1993-1995 UNESCO, National Committee,  Member  

- 1996-1997 Department for Standardization, Certification and Metrology of Armenia (Information Technology Committee Member)    

- 1997-present Expert of the Committee on informatics of the Ministry of Science and Education of the Republic of Armenia    

- 1998-present Member of the working group of the Interdepartmental Committee on informatics under the Government of the Republic of Armenia    

- 1998-present  Liaison officer for Armenia on  constitutional law and legal information systems to the (Venice) Commission for Democracy through Law under the Council of Europe  

- 1999-present member of the International Association of Constitutional Law (IACL), Rotterdam,  Netherlands.  
   
- 1999-present member of the Armenian Internet Society  Council

  PUBLICATIONS:   5 Monographs, 165 articles     
     

 PRESENTATIONS AT PROFESSIONAL CONFERENCES:  

- 1981 (Moscow, USSR) - Conference "Interactive Computer System in Design"  
   
- 1982 (Moscow, USSR) - Conference "Automation Systems in Administration"  
   
- 1983, 1987 (Tsakhkadzor, Armenia) - first and second International Seminars "Computer Graphics in Management", chief    

- 1985 (Moscow, USSR) - Conference "Management of Big City"  
   
- 1987 (Serpukhov, USSR) - IV Conference "Computer Graphics"  
   
- 1988 (Moscow, USSR) - International Conference "Problems of the Computer Aided Design"  
   
- 1989 (Karlovy-Vary, Czechoslovakia) - report "Integrated telecommunication Systems", Second International Conference on CAD in Investment 

    - 1990 (Prague, Czechoslovakia) - report "Computer Networks", Second European Management Congress    

    - 1990 (New Orlean, USA) - report "Telehumanism: On Line Services in Soviet Armenia" (American Association for the Advancement of Science)    

    - 1993 (Paris, FRANCE) - report "Telecommunication with mobile station", Unesco, International Academy of Science "ARARAT"    

    - 1997 (Yerevan, Armenia) - the Second International Seminar "Constitutional Oversight And Human Rights Protection"  

    - 1998 (Mexico) - Course of Lectures by Legal Informatics on the faculty of Law of the University of Mexico  

    - 1998 (Yerevan, Armenia) - "The Constitutional Development in Caucasus States: Separation of Powers", International Seminar, European Commission for Democracy through Law of the Council of Europe, Yerevan, October 14-15  

    - 1998 (Yerevan, Armenia) - "Electoral disputes before the Constitutional Court", The Third International Seminar, European Commission for Democracy through Law of the Council of Europe, Yerevan, October 15-16  

    - 1999 (Rotterdam, Netherlands) - report G. Harutunian, G. Vahanyan "New compuers technology for analysis, comparison synthesis of legal information", IACL, the Fifth World Congress "Constitutionalism, Universalism and Democracy", 12-16 July 1999  

    - 1999 (Tsakhkadzor, Armenia) - "Internet and Culture",  Report  in the seminar "Culture and Society in Transition",  organized by International Research and Exchange Board (IREX) and US Research and Education Programs Alumni Armenian Association, July 23-25   
       
    - 1999 (Yerevan,  Armenia) - The Fourth International Seminar, European Commission for Democracy through Law of the Council of Europe, Yerevan, October 4-6  

    - 1999 (Tsakhkadzor, Armenia) - "Public Schools. New Methods of Management and New Technologies in Education", International scientific conference, 17-21   
    October, 1999  

    - 1999 (Kiev, Ukraine) - Conference of the Secretaries General of European Constituional Courts and courts of equivalent jurisdiction, Kiev, November 25-26, Report "International cooperation of the Constitutional Court of the Republic of Armenia".
Languages: Armenian, English, Russian and Germany