Haik Nikogosian
Haik Nikogosian is an Armenian physician, politician and a public health expert.
Nikogosian was chairman of the National Institute of Health of Armenia from 1992 to 1994, and served as the Armenian Minister of Health from 1998 to 2000.
He held managerial positions with the World Health Organization in Europe from 2000 to 2007, and was Head of Noncommunicable Diseases and Lifestyles for part of that time.
He was the funding Head of the Secretariat of the WHO Framework Convention on Tobacco Control from 2007 to 2014.
As of July 2017, he is "Special Representative of the WHO Regional Director for Europe for strengthening multisectoral and multilateral cooperation for health and work at the intersection of regional and global health", and acting WHO Special Representative to the Russian Federation.
