12 Facts About Kamo Areyan

Kamo Areyan is an Armenian economist and politician.

Kamo Areyan is a member of the Republican Party of Armenia and served as party representative on the Yerevan City Council between 2013 and 2018.

Kamo Areyan was born on 20 November 1957 in the village of Nerkin Sasnashen in the Aragatsotn Province of Armenia.

Kamo Areyan attended the Yerevan Institute of National Economy, then worked at the Academy of Sciences of the Armenian SSR's Institute of Economics until 1980, when he served for two years in the Soviet Army.

Kamo Areyan returned to his position at the Institute of Economics in 1982 and stayed there until 1995.

In 1995, Kamo Areyan became a member of the National Assembly in Yerevan, a role he held for four years.

Kamo Areyan served as Deputy Mayor of Yerevan between 1997 and 2001, including nearly four months in early 1998 as Acting Mayor.

Kamo Areyan worked as the Deputy Minister of Territorial Administration from 2001 to 2002 and of its successor, the Ministry of Territorial Administration and Coordination of Industrial Infrastructures, from 2002 to 2003.

Kamo Areyan became the First Deputy Mayor of Yerevan in 2003, then again in 2009 and 2017.

Kamo Areyan remained in this role under Mayor Hrachya Sargsyan and the subsequent mayoral vacancy beginning in March 2023.

Kamo Areyan is a Council Member of the Menq Foundation for Popularisation of State and National Values.

Kamo Areyan was awarded the Anania Shirakatsi medal in 2007 and the 2nd degree medal Services to the Motherland for his political work in 2014.