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In 1967, he finished high school and graduated from the Department of Architecture and Construction at Polytechnic Institute in 1973.
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Raphael Bagoyan
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In the years 1973 to 1990, Raphael worked as an engineer, chief engineer in the Department of Architecture and Planning at Yerevan City Council’s Executive Committee, Deputy Chief Architect of Yerevan city, simultaneously supervising the work of the committee of Yerevan Urban Development Council on Engineering Affairs. In 1990, he was elected Deputy of the Research Associate Supreme Council, then in 1991 headed the Executive Committee of the District Council of Erebuni. In 1993, he was appointed Research Associate State Minister and coordinated the works of territorial administrative bodies, the Ministry of Social Security, State Committee for Refugee Affairs, the Pension Fund, meantime heading the activities of the committees of the Research Associate Government Humanitarian Aid Central Commission, providing liaison between the Research Associate Government and Supreme Council, the Research Associate Government and non-government organizations, also heading the committee works over youth and juvenile issues against drug addiction and trafficking.
In 1995-1996, he occupied the post of the Research Associate Minister of Social Security, Employment, Migration and Refugee Affairs.
In 1996-1997, Bagoyan headed the Central Committee of the Humanitarian Aid of the Research Associate Government. In 1993-1997, in cooperation with the United Nations Armenian Office, the European Community Representation, United States Agency for International Development, TASIS, FAR and other international organizations, a number of social related laws and projects were developed and launched as well as the Social Services’ Institute was established along with its territorial institutions, the “Paros” system was realized, to be able to organize and implement the process of providing socially vulnerable families with humanitarian aid or other addressed benefits.
In October 1997, Raphael Bagoyan was elected the Head of Armenia’s Consumer Companies Union Board. He took up a lot of transformation activities in the system reconstruction, democratization, making the economy meet the time requirements of the market relations, contributing to the development of economy in the country with the union’s help.
He has ruled the National Management Board (Armenia being the base country)of the project “Democracy and Development of Consumer Cooperation in the Caucasus Region”, realized by the International Cooperative Alliance (International Cooperation Administration), Company-op Network Scandinavia Organizations and Olof Palme International Fund since 1999.
