Dr. Astghik Solomonyan is a Legal Affairs Officer for the Government Procurement and Competition Policy Group in the World Trade Organization. Before joining the WTO Secretariat, Astghik provided consultancy services to the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development, the World Bank, the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development, and Sigma/OECD. She has also worked in the public and private sectors in Armenia.
She has graduated with Honor Diploma from Yerevan State University and obtained her LLM degree with Cum Laude Diploma from the University of Groningen. She has an International master's Diploma from the University of Rome Tor Vergata, specializing in public procurement. Dr. Solomonyan has been awarded a PhD from the University of Nottingham in the UK after completing a thesis related to public procurement.