Sona Tsarukyan

Date/place of birth

July 6, 1978, Yerevan

Work experience

From May 2023 – Deputy Head of the Food Safety Inspection Body of RA

From February 2023 to May 2023 - Agricultural Services Center” SNCO of the Ministry of Economy of the Republic of Armenia, Head of Veterinary and Numbering Division

From January 2023 to February 2023 - Agricultural Services Center” SNCO of the Ministry of Economy of the Republic of Armenia, Head of the monitoring and examination department

2022-2023 - Agricultural Services Center” SNCO of the Ministry of Economy of the Republic of Armenia, Analyst of veterinary medicine and numbering department

From February 2019 - present - National Agrarian University of Armenia, lecturer

2019-2021 - Faculty of Veterinary Medicine and Animal Science, Deputy Dean, Head of the grant program “Center for Veterinary Educational Excellence”, implemented within the second main cycle of the program “Improving Education”.

2011-2022 - Ministry of Economy of RA (Agricultural Development Fund, State Institution for the Implementation of Agricultural Programs),

Agricultural Resource Management and Community Competitiveness Program Component Coordinator.

From June 2011 to December 2011 - Republican Center for Agricultural Support,

Consultant of the UN FAO "Support for the Design and Implementation of Network Information System Components" project

2010-2011 - "Republican Veterinary Diagnostic and Anti-epidemic Center" SNOC, veterinarian

2008-2009 - "Bacon Product" LLC, Head of Quality Control

2006-2010 - Agricultural Reform Support Program Implementation Office, State Institution, Veterinarian of the Avian Influenza Program

2002-2005 - Veterinarian of the Central Scientific Methodological Veterinary Laboratory (Moscow, RF)

2000-2001 - Ministry of Agriculture of RA, computer operator

Education

2001-2006 - All-Russian Research Institute of Veterinary Sanitation, Hygiene and Ecology (Moscow, Russia)

Candidate of Veterinary Sciences, Department of Veterinary Sanitation and Hygiene

Candidate of Veterinary Sciences

1995-2000 - Armenian Agricultural Academy, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, veterinarian

Trainings

03.2023 – Training for trainers, IQLS - Global Laboratory Leadership Program in Armenia

2021-2022 - IQLS certificate

May 2022 – Conference Eramus+ Internationalization Ambassadors-Together for a Green Future - "King Michael I of Romania" University of Agricultural Sciences and Veterinary Medicine, Banat

May 2017 - Agribusiness as a tool for empowering rural women - Israel International Development Cooperation Agency, Ministry of Foreign Affairs of RA

August 2015 - Risk Analysis for Agribusiness Managers - German Agency for International Cooperation (GIZ GmbH) in collaboration with the International Center for Agribusiness Research and Education (ICARE)

2010 - Basic Molecular Biology Techniques - Research Center Borstel

2008-2009 - Participatory Disease Surveillance (PDS) Courses - International Livestock Research Institute

2008 - Epidemiology of Avian Influenza - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations

March 2008 - Internal Audit - USDA/CARD

2005 - Application of Codex Alimentarius requirements. Practical problems Development of a food safety management system according to ISO 22000.

2008 - USDA/CARD

Membership in professional bodies

2020 - present

National Veterinary Association