Armenian Prime Minister Hovik Abrahamyan today appointed Artyom Geghamyan to the post of deputy justice minister.

From 2008 to 2011, Geghamyan headed the ministry’s liaison division to the European Court of Human Rights. 

Geghamyan holds a JD and Master of Laws from Yerevan State University School of Law, and a PhD in European Union Law and Integration from Public Administration Academy. He holds an LLM in International and Comparative Law from Indiana University School of Law.

For the past year he was a fellow at the Carr Center for Human Rights Policy at Harvard University.