Gevorg Kostanyan

Prosecutor General of the Republic of Armenia

2013 - 2016

He was born on the 4th of October, 1977 in Yerevan. By the decision of the RA National Assembly dated 01.10.2013 he was appointed as the RA Prosecutor General. Since 2004 he has been the representative of the RA Government before the European Court of Human Rights. He has been teaching in the Faculty of Law of YSU since 2002. He was the RA Military Prosecutor, the RA Deputy Prosecutor General during 2011-2013. He was the assistant of the RA President during 2008-2011, the head of the monitoring committee combating corruption in the RA. G. Kostanyan was the RA Deputy Minister of Justice during 2006-2008. He was the adviser to the RA Minister of Justice in 2006. He was the Deputy Head of Staff of the RA Ministry of Justice. G. Kostanyan was the adviser to the RA Minister of Justice during 2001-2003. He served in the Armed forces of the RA during 1999-2001. He was the first class consultant of the Department concerning legislative matters of the RA Ministry of Justice during 1995-1999.

G. Kostanyan is a LL. D, a Second Class State Councillor of Justice. His legal education G. Kostanyan received in the Faculty of Law of Yerevan State University, which he graduated in 1999. In 2006 he studied at University of Nottingham in Great Britain. Currently, he is studying at the Philosophy and Law Institute of the RA National Academy of Sciences to obtain his S. J. D. He is married with two children.