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Office of the Prime Minister of the Republic of Armenia

Lilya Afrikyan

Lilya Afrikyan

Department of Participatory and Open Governance issues
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Curriculum Vitae

Date/place of birth
July 27, 1982, Yerevan

Education
2006 - Yerevan State PedagogicalUniversity, Faculty of Foreign Languages, English Language and Literature (Bachelor, Master)
2024-2025 - Stanford University Business School, Operations Management Professional Program

Work experience
2013–2014 – Government Staff, aide
2014–2015 – Expert of the Foreign Relations Department of the Government Staff
2014–2015 - National Coordinator for the UN Millennium Development Goals
2015–2018 - Leading Specialist at the Department of External Relations, Government Staff
2015-2019 - National Coordinator for the UN Sustainable Development Goals and Representative of the Government of the Republic of Armenia
2016 – present - Coordinator, National Contact Person for the Open Government Partnership Initiative
2018–2025 – Chief Specialist of the Foreign Relations Department of the Prime Minister's Office
2024 – present - Rеpresentative of the Government of the Republic of Armenia in the Steering Committee on Democracy of the Council of Europe, then elected as a member of the Bureau of the Steering Committee
April 2025 – present - Head of the Department of Participatory and Open Governance Issues of the Prime Minister's Office

Other information
October 2023–March 2024 - Open Government Leadership Partnership Program
In September 2018, she received a special award from the Freedom of Information Center NGO at the annual Golden Key and Rusty Lock Awards for effective coordination and ensuring government-civil society cooperation within the framework of the Open Government Partnership initiative.
February-March 2017 - UN Sustainable Development Agenda 2030 foundational course, New York, USA
2015-2016 - Finnish-Estonian Project "Civil Service Reforms, Participatory Democracy, E-Governance and Public Governance", Helsinki, Tallinn
June-July 2015 - Seminar on "China's Experience in Developing a Free Economic Zone for Eurasian Countries" in Beijing, China.
Participates in the development of policy documents, resolutions and analyses developed by international organizations (OECD, Council of Europe, UN, OGP, etc.).
Involved in the development of public administration reforms, anti-corruption and open governance programs in Armenia.

Party affiliation
Non-partisan

Personal information
Married with two children.