ArmInfo. Hrant Jilavyan has been appointed deputy head of the Foreign Intelligence Service of Armenia.
According to the official website of the government, the decision was signed by Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan on February 6.
Jilavyan was born in 1995 and graduated from the Faculty of Law of Yerevan State University in 2020. He practiced law and teaches at the Department of Criminal Procedure and Criminology. Since 2022, when Kristine Grigoryan, the current head of the Foreign Intelligence Service, was in position of HRD, he worked in the Human Rights Administration of Armenia, where he headed the department for the protection of human rights in the Armed Forces and in the field of criminal proceedings. Some time after Grigoryan's appointment as head of the Foreign Intelligence Service departure, he served as acting HRD.
The project to create the Foreign Intelligence Service was approved in December 2022. The Foreign Intelligence Service will report directly to the country's Prime Minister. In October 2023, by decision of Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan, former HRD of Armenia Kristine Grigoryan, was appointed head of the Foreign Intelligence Service.