Hrant Bagratyan is an Armenian politician. He was the Prime Minister of Armenia from 2 February 1993 until 4 November 1996, and a former member of the Pan-Armenian National Movement political party. He has PhD in Economics, author of more than 52 scientific articles and 7 books. In "The Society and the State" he developed the theory of scientific technical cycles. Based on that he predicted regular centralisation and decentralisation of the management of the society. Particularly he predicted the centralisation of the management of the economy by 2010. Founder of a new direction in Economics: global macroeconomics or geoeconomics.
As Prime Minister of Armenia Hrant Bagratyan had a key role in the organization of successful military defence of Nagorno Karabagh in the war with Azerbaijan in 1993–1994. Thanks to this on May 12, a cease-fire was proclaimed and has largely held since.
Megaeconomics
Hrant Bagratyan is the author of 61 scientific articles and 9 monographs. He is the founder of the new term "megaeconomics" and the theory behind this term. He considers megaeconomics as his greatest scientific achievement. According to the developments in the economic theory and its flexibility being dependent on changing circumstances and changing world, Bagratyan argues, that along with microeconomics and macroeconomics, there must also be a place for "megaeconomics", where economies are confronted in another, more global dimension. Megaeconomics should be considered as an instrument of finding stable equilibrium points for all the economies considered as one whole, in terms of interactions and influences on one another, in the globalizing world of the 21st century. In that case, goals and challenges are changing and that's the point where megaeconomics comes.
Summary of qualifications
the problems of labor motivation, HR management, health and life insurance;
land privatization;
public and administrative reforms in the emerging markets;
structural reforms in the energy sector of post soviet countries;
Leader of the Armenian economic reforms end of the 20th century, defined by World Bank as one of the best among former Soviet Union republics and countries of Eastern Europe.
Publications
77 published works including 17 monographs
Monograph Material Stimulation of scientific-technical progress in Production, Yerevan, pub. House, Academy of Science ASR, 1989, 10.7 quires, Printed.
Monograph Payments Arrears in the Gas and Electric Power Sectors of the Russian Federation and Ukraine, IMF, 1997, Washington, 1.5 quires, Printed.
Monograph State and Society, Moscow, Izograf 2000, 23 quires, Printed.
Monograph Armenia on a Frontier of Centuries, Yerevan, Nairi, 2003, Printed.
Monograph Integration of Ukraine and Russia in to European labor space, Kiev, UBS NBU, 2010, printed.
Awards
1995 “The Men of the Year” of ABI.
1996 “The Men of the Millennium” of ABI.
1997 Recognized PhD candidate by International Monetary Fund, Washington D.C.
2006 By the independent journalists recognized as the best economic public man of Armenia during the whole period of the independency of the country in 1991-2006.
2005 Received PhD in Economics by Higher Attestation Committee of the Ministry of Education of Russian Federation, Moscow.
2010 Received PhD in Economics by Higher Attestation Committee of Ukraine, Kiev
Musical activity
Before starting his career at the Government of Armenia, Hrant Bagratyan worked at theater orchestra at the Theater after H. Paronyan, playing blues on acoustic guitar. Despite this, having no musical education, Hrant Bagratyan has authored over 15 works and plans to release an album. According to him, human life is enough to be professional at least in two spheres.
