Armen Nurbekyan is the Deputy Chairman of the Central Bank of RA from December 23, 2022. Before that he worked as a Head of Macroeconomics directorate and a member of executive committee of the Central Bank of Armenia (CBA). In his current role, Mr. Nurbekyan coordinates monetary policy, research and statistics in the CBA. Prior to this, he worked in Monetary Policy, Financial Stability and Research departments of the CBA, and in the Research department of the International Monetary Fund (IMF). In the Research department of the IMF, Mr. Nurbekyan worked in the Economic Modeling division, where he was involved in macroeconomic forecasting and research in the fields of monetary policy and oil. His research interests include monetary and macroprudential policies, oil, transparency of central banks, emerging markets, as well as issues related to financial dollarization. He holds a PhD in Mathematics from Yerevan State University and MBA from American University of Armenia.