title: Mikayel Melkumyan
text: # Mikayel Melkumyan
  
  Mikayel Melkumyan (Armenian: Միքայել Սերգեյի Մելքումյան; born 1 April 1962) is an Armenian politician. He was first elected to the Armenian National Assembly in 2012 as a member of the Prosperous Armenia Party. He was re-elected in the 2017 Armenian parliamentary election and subsequently chosen as one of three Deputy Speakers of the National Assembly.
  
  ## Biography
  
  Mikayel Melkumyan was born on April 1, 1962, in Yerevan. He has served in the Soviet Army.
  
  ## Education
  
  In 1983, Melkumyan graduated from Armenian State University of Economics, receiving the qualification of an economist. He later pursued his post-graduate studies at the same institution, earning the degree of a Doctor. Mikael Melkumyan also holds the title of Professor of Economics.
  
  ## Career
  
  From 1987 until 1998, Melkumyan was a professor at the ASIE Chair of Industrial Economics. Between 1999 and 2000, he was the chief of staff at the Ministry of Social Security. Since 2000, he has been a professor at the ASUE Chair in Microeconomics and Entrepreneurial Activity. Also in 2000, Melkumyan was appointed a deputy minister of state property management, a post which he held until 2003.
  
  ## Engagement in politics
  
  Melkumyan was elected to the Armenian National Assembly three times: on May 6, 2012, as a proportional representation candidate from the Prosperous Armenia party, on April 2, 2017, as a member of Tsarukyan Alliance, a political bloc led by Gagik Tsarukyan, the leader of the Prosperous Armenia party, and on December 9, 2018, again as a representative of Prosperous Armenia.
  
  ## Personal life
  
  Mikayel Melkumyan is married and has three sons.
  
  ## Published works
  
  * Use of Secondary Raw in the Republic of Armenia: Existing Problems and Challenges, Yerevan, 1991
  * Entrepreneurship and Investments, Yerevan, 1998
  * State Property Management and Business, Yerevan, 2001
  * Entrepreneurship and Business, Yerevan, 2006
  
  ## Awards
  
  * Mkhitar Gosh Medal (2016)
  