Education
1998-2002 - Yerevan State
University, Faculty of Oriental Studies, Bachelor Degree in Arabic Studies
2002-2004 - Yerevan State University, Faculty of Oriental
Studies, Master Degree in Arabic Studies
2006-2008 - Northern University Bachelor Degree in Law
Work Experience
2004-2009 - Specialist of the Department of Legislative
Analysis and Development at the National Assembly Staff of the Republic of
Armenia.
March-October 2009թ. - Translator-Lawyer at the Department of Foreign
Relations of the National Assembly Staff of the Republic of Armenia.
2009-2011- Assistant to the Chief of Staff of RA
National Assembly on Legal Issues.
2011-2014 - Assistant to a Deputy/Member of the National
Assembly (last two years working concurrently) 2012-2014 Assistant of the
President of the National Assembly of the Republic of Armenia on Legal Issues.
2014-2015 Team Leader in the USAID project "Support to Institutional
Strengthening of the National Assembly of the Republic of Armenia"
(procedures and regulations improving component).
2015-2018 - Head of Department of International Legal
Cooperation of the Ministry of Justice of the Republic of Armenia.
2018-2019 - Assistant to First Deputy Prime Minister of
the Republic of Armenia (on International Legal Issues).
January-July 2019 - Assistant of the President of the National
Assembly of the Republic of Armenia on International Legal Issues.
July 2019 - April 2021 - Deputy Minister of Justice of the Republic of
Armenia.
April 2021- January 2022 - First Deputy Minister of Justice of the
Republic of Armenia.
Professional Involvement
2016-2017 - Works in Drafting Group on Civil Society and
National Human Rights Institutions (CDDH-INST) at the Steering Committee for
Human Rights (CDDH) as a national expert, which developed recommendation of the
Committee of Ministers to member States on the need to strengthen the
protection and promotion of the civil society space in Europe (CM/Rec(2018)11).
In this working group Kristinne Grigoryan participated in the professional
discussions on the "The Venice Principles on the Protection and Promotion
of Ombudsman Institution".
2019 – 2022 - Represented Government in the European
Committee for the Prevention of Torture and the United Nations Committee
Against Torture 2021 Led Armenian Delegation to defend the RA Report on the
Implementation of the Covenant on Civil and Political Rights in the UN Human
Rights Committee
2019-2022 - Head of Armenian Delegation at the Group of
States against Corruption (GRECO)
2019-2022 - Performed duties of Coordinator of Armenia in
OECD Anti-Corruption Network for Eastern Europe and Central Asia
2021-2022 - Chaired the Multidisciplinary Council of Juvenile
Justice, acting under the coordination of the Ministry of Justice of the
Republic of Armenia
2016-2022 - Involved, organized and coordinated the
process of development and implementation of two national strategies on Human
Rights Protection (2017-2019 and 2019-2022) with the involvement of all
government stakeholders, the Office of the Human Rights Defender, civil society
organizations and international partners
2019-2022 - Performed functions
of Secretary of Coordinating Committee of National Strategy for Human Rights
Protection. Actively involved in works on the development and implementation of
2020-2022 Reform Strategy for RA Police, including the project of introduction
the Patrol Service in Armenia.
2021 - Lecturing on subject “Police-Society-Collaboration”
at the Police Educational Complex
Other Information
Languages:
Fluency in Russian, English and French, as well as German and Arabic.
Unmarried,
Non-Party