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Mikayel (son of Aram) Khachatryan - born in Yerevan in June 13, 1986 - is an Armenian Health Lawyer and bioethicist, an international expert for Human Rights in Biomedicine, Member of the International Forum of Teachers of the UNESCO Chair in Bioethics since 2014 (Haifa, Israel), Member of Armenian Lawyers Association since 2017, Honoris Causa of Bruges city in Belgium since 2016.

He studied at Russian-Armenian University from 2003 to 2012 where he got his bachelor, master and subsequently PhD degrees in Private Law. After having studied Health Law in Paris University of Vincennes St. Denis (2010-2012) and European Law in College of Europe in Bruges (2015-2016), he started teaching at local Armenian universities as law professor such as Yerevan State Medical University (2013-2015), Armenian State University of Economics (2013-2018), etc.

He was also trained at the Hague Academy of International Law (August 2012), the Academy for National Human Rights Institutions in Poznan organized by OSCE/ODIHR and ENNHRI (June 2017), the Folke Benadote Academy (January 2018), Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy at Tufts University (January 2020 – June 2021); MGIMO (May 2021); Singapore Cooperation Programme (October 2021).

In 2018 he has founded the Health Law Master Program at Russian-Armenian University where he serves as the academic director since. This program brings together countryside leading professors, practitioners, and experts to address challenges and questions of Health Law. It attempts to train the next generation of health care lawyers, policy-makers, academics, and industry leaders.

In parallel, he also worked at the Agency of the Government Representative to ECHR of the Ministry of Justice as a lead specialist (2014-2015), at the Armenian Human Rights Defender’s (Parliamentary Ombudsman) Office as the Head of the Department for International Cooperation (2016-2022).

While living in Bruges, he participated in European Health Parliament project as a member of the Climate change and Public Health Committee. Each year, the European Health Parliament brings together 55 young professionals in Brussels between December 2015 and June 2016 to deal with health care problems in the EU.

Scholarships awarded by: Tavitian foundation (2020), the European Commission ENP (2015-2016); The Hague Academy of International Law (2012); French Government (2011-2012); Association of Law Institutes of Commonwealth of Independent States based in Moscow (1st prize) (2008).

He is author of around 40 publications in specialized international reviews (Armenia, Italy, Israel, Romania, Russia, Turkey, Ukraine, United States), coauthor of three legal manuals.

Originated from Mush city, Khachaturian family is a descendent of the medieval noble Mamikonian family. Mamikonians, who crossed the border of Cilicia for helping Crusaders, named ever since by the laters Kachatur(ian), given by the Cross.