As of February 1, 2009, Grigor Hovhannisyan, an advisor to the RoA National Assembly President, has been selected to carry out the responsibilities of the Armenian Consulate in Los Angeles. Mr. Hovhannisyan was employed by the United Nations from 1994-2006 and held several posts in Armenia, the Democratic Republic of the Congo and several Middle East nations. He served as Executive Director of the "Shoushi Renaissance Fund" from 2006-2009 and was a lecturer at the Arab Studies Department at Yerevan State University.