Lilit Makunts
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Lilit Makunts | |
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Լիլիթ Մակունց | |
 Makunts in 2019 | |
| Ambassador of Armenia to the United States | |
| Assumed office 2 August 2021 | |
| Preceded by | Varuzhan Nersesyan |
| Minister of Culture of Armenia | |
| In office 12 May 2018 – 14 January 2019 | |
| President | Armen Sarkissian |
| Prime Minister | Nikol Pashinyan |
| Preceded by | Armen Amiryan |
| Succeeded by | Nazeni Gharibyan (acting) |
| Member of the National Assembly | |
| In office 14 January 2019 – 10 May 2021 | |
| Parliamentary group | My Step Alliance |
| Personal details | |
| Born | 7 November 1983 |
| Party | Civil Contract |
| Alma mater | Yerevan State University |
Lilit Kamo Makunts (Armenian: Լիլիթ Կամոյի Մակունց; born 7 November 1983) is an Armenian philologist and politician who currently serves as the Armenian ambassador to the United States. Earlier, she served as the leader of the ruling My Step Alliance faction in the seventh National Assembly of Armenia and as Minister of Culture in the first cabinet of Nikol Pashinyan.
Makunts was born in the capital of Armenia, in Yerevan, on 7 November 1983. Between 1999 and 2003 she studied Romance and Germanic Philology at Yerevan State University from where she obtained a bachelor's degree. In the same faculty, between 2003 and 2004, she received a master's degree. Lilit Makunts got a candidate degree in philological sciences.[1]
In 2005 she started teaching as an associate professor in the Russian-Armenian University, where she became the head of the Department of International Cooperation in February 2018.[2] She also worked at the Peace Corps from 2016 to 2018.
