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Tigran Sargsyan (Armenian: Տիգրան Սուրենի Սարգսյան, born 29 January 1960) is an Armenian political figure, Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Republic of Armenia to the United States of America, Prime Minister of the Republic of Armenia from 9 April 2008 until 3 April 2014.
Tigran Sargsyan was born on 29 January 1960 in the city of Vanadzor, Armenian SSR. He was still a child, when his family moved to Yerevan, where in 1967–1977 Sargsyan received his primary education at Yerevan Pushkin School №8.
Tigran Sargsyan enters Yerevan Technical College № 14, which he finishes in 1978. Тhe same year Sargsyan enters Yerevan Institute of National Economy, Faculty of Economy and Planning. In 1980 he enters Leningrad Financial and Economic Institute after N. A. Voznesenskiy, which he graduated in 1983.
In 1987 Tigran Sargsyan gets his PhD at Leningrad Financial and Economic Institute, where he defends his thesis titled "Regional social-economic development planning on Armenia's example".