Lilit Makunts

Lilit Makunts (Armenian: Լիլիթ Մակունց; born 7 November 1983), is an Armenian philologist and politician, current head of ruling My Step Alliance faction in the National Assembly and former Minister of Culture in the first cabinet of Nikol Pashinyan.[1]

Lilit Makunts
Լիլիթ Մակունց
Member of the National Assembly
Assumed office
14 January 2019
Parliamentary groupMy Step Alliance
Minister of Culture of Armenia
In office
12 May 2018 – 14 January 2019
PresidentArmen Sarkissian
Prime MinisterNikol Pashinyan
Preceded byArmen Amiryan
Personal details
Born7 November 1983
Yerevan, Armenia SSR, Soviet Union
Political partyCivil Contract
Alma materYerevan State University

Biography and academic career

Makunts was born in the capital of Armenia, in Yerevan, on 7 November 1983. Between 1999 and 2003 she studied Romance and Germanic Philology at Yerevan State University and received her bachelor's degree. In the same faculty, between 2003 and 2004, she received a master's degree. Lilit Makunts got a candidate degree in philological sciences.[2]

In 2005 started teaching as an associate professor in the Russian-Armenian University, where become the Head of the Departament of International Cooperation in February 2018[3]. She also worked at the Peace Corps from 2016 to 2018.

Political career

During 8 years was member of the board of the Armenian Liberal Party and was leader of the youth organization between 2004 and 2012. As a politician, had defended democratic changes for Armenia, also in the rural areas.[4]

In the 2012 parliamentary election was candidate for the Armenian National Congress but she didn't get a seat in the National Assembly.[5]

On 12 May 2018, on the proposal of the Prime Minister, Nikol Pashinyan, President Armen Sarkissian, appointed Lilit Makunts as Minister of Culture of Armenia.[6][7] In the 2018 parliamentary election got a seat in the Parliament for Civil Contract party.

References
  1. Ministry of Culture
  2. Team Members
  3. Մշակույթի նորանշանակ նախարար Լիլիթ Մակունցի կենսագրությունը (in Armenian)
  4. Lilit Makunts
  5. ՀԱԿ-ի համամասնական ցուցակը (in Armenian)
  6. ԼԻԼԻԹ ՄԱԿՈՒՆՑԻՆ ՄՇԱԿՈՒՅԹԻ ՆԱԽԱՐԱՐ ՆՇԱՆԱԿԵԼՈՒ ՄԱՍԻՆ (in Armenian)
  7. After the Appointment of His New Cabinet, Pashinyan Heads to Sochi and Meets Putin
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