Arpine Davoyan

Arpine Davoyan (Armenian: Արփինե Դավոյան; born 28 August 1985) is an Armenian psychologist and politician. She is a founding member of the Civil Contract party and a member of Parliament since 2018.

Born in Stepanavan, Soviet Armenia, Davoyan studied psychology at the Vanadzor State University, from which she graduated in 2009.^[1] She is currently pursuing an master's degree in political sciences at the Armenian National Academy of Sciences.^[1]

After her graduation in 2009, she worked as a high school psychologist until 2014.^[1] Between 2015 and 2017 she worked as an accountant in the private sector.^[1]

In 2015 she was a founding member of the Civil Contract party.^[1] She supported the Way Out Alliance as a clerk in the Armenian Parliament between 2017 and 2018.^[1] In June 2018 she became as an assistant to Nikol Pashinyan, the Prime Minister of Armenia of the Civil Contract. In the Parliamentary elections of December 2018, she was elected as a Member of Parliament for the Civil Contract of the My Step Alliance.^[1] In June 2019 she was elected as one of two women into the Board of the Civil Contract party.^[2] In Parliament, she defended the view that a country is in need of a healthy efficient opposition, but denied the current opposition were assuming such a role in January 2021.^[3]