Mkhitar Hayrapetyan

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Mkhitar Hayrapetyan
Մխիթար Հայրապետյան
Hayrapetyan in 2021
Minister of High-Tech Industry
Incumbent
Assumed office 14 January 2019
Parliamentary group	district #1 of the My Step Alliance[1]
Minister of Diaspora
In office 11 May 2018 – 14 January 2019
Prime Minister	Nikol Pashinyan
Preceded by	Hranush Hakobyan
Succeeded by	Zareh Sinanyan (as a High Commissioner of Diaspora Affairs of Armenia)[2]
Personal details
Born	(1990-05-15) May 15, 1990 (age 34) Yerevan, Armenia
Political party	Civil Contract (2015–) My Step Alliance
Spouse	Single[3]
Alma mater	Yerevan State University

Mkhitar Hayrapetyan (Armenian: Մխիթար Հայրապետյան; born May 15, 1990) is the Minister of High-Tech Industry of the Republic of Armenia. He formerly served as Minister of Diaspora of Armenia from May 11, 2018, to January 11, 2019. On 9 December 2018, Hayrapetyan was elected as a member of the National Assembly of Armenia from the territorial electoral list of the electoral district #1 of the My Step Alliance of parties. Since 18 January 2019, Hayrapetyan is the Chairman of the Standing committee on Science, Education, Culture, Diaspora, Youth and Sport. He also served as the head of the Armenian delegation at the Euronest Parliamentary Assembly. Mkhitar Hayrpetyan and Sebastian Kurz were the only ministers in Europe to be assigned to their role at the age of 27.^[4]