Lilit Makunts

Lilit Makunts
Name in Armenian	Լիլիթ Մակունց
Birthplace	Yerevan
Birth date	7 November 1983
Lived in	Yerevan
Education	Yerevan State University
Languages	Armenian, English, Russian
Ethnicities	Armenian
Dialects	Eastern Armenian

Lilit Makunts (Armenian: Լիլիթ Մակունց; born 7 November 1983), is an Armenian philologist and politician, current Minister of Culture in the Nikol Pashinyan government.

Biography and academic career

Makunts was born in the capital of Armenia, in Yerevan, on 7 November 1983 and between 1999 and 2003 she studied Romance and Germanic Philology at the State University of Yerevan and got a bachelor's degree. In the same faculty, between 2003 and 2004 studied a master's degree. Lilit Makunts got a candidate degree in philological sciences.

In 2005 started teaching as an associate professor in the Russian-Armenian University, where become the Head of the Departament of International Cooperation in February 2018. She also works in the Peace Corps since 2016.

Political career

During 8 years was member of the board of the Armenian Liberal Party and was leader of the youth organitzation between 2004 and 2012. As a politician, had defended democratic changes for Armenia, also in the rural areas.

In the 2012 parliamentary election was candidate for the Armenian National Congress but she didn't get a seat in the National Assembly.

On 12 May 2018, on the proposal of the Prime Minister, Nikol Pashinyan, President Armen Sarkissian, appointed Lilit Makunts as Minister of Culture of Armenia. In the 2018 parliamentary election got a seat in the Parliament for Civil Contract party.

References

Creative Commons Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lilit_Makunts