Hrant Bagratyan was born on October 18, 1958, in Yerevan.

Education
1975-1979 - Yerevan Institute of National Economy
1982-1985 - Post-graduate course of the NAS Economics Institute

Career Experience
1979-1981 - Soviet army service
1990-1993 - First Deputy Head of Government, Minister of Economy
1991, September-October- Acting Head of Government
1993-1995 - Prime Minister
1995, July - Reappointed to the post of prime minister following the passage of the Constitution of the Republic of Armenia
1996-1997 - Adviser to the IMF
1998-2006 - Yerevan Brandy Factory Vice President, Director for Human Resources and Grapes Procurements

Other Details
Doctor of Economics and Philosophy, Academician of Russia’s Humanitarian Sciences Academy
1995 - “The men of the year” of ABI (American Biography Institute).
1998 - “The men of the millennium” of UN and Cambridge Biography Center.
2005 - Honorary Doctor of Yerevan State Economics Institute
2006 - Independent journalists recognized him as the best economic public man of Armenia for the whole period of the independence.
He has authored 7 books and 52 research papers.

Party Membership 
Chairman of Freedom Party of Armenia
ANC founding member

Marital Status
Married, has two children.

Hrant Bagratyan is on ANC proportional list for parliamentary elections 2012 (he is the 8th in the list).