Armen Kouyoumdjian

Mr. Armen Kouyoumdjian is a Latin Political Risk Analyst at Hallgarten & Co. Ltd.
In 1971, he joined the European Research Department of Vickers da Costa & Co. Ltd, a London brokerage firm subsequently absorbed into Citicorp), and was promoted to European Research manager in 1974.
In November 1976, he moved to the International Mexican Bank, a London-established institution owned at that time by a number of Mexican and international banks (now totally absorbed into the Banamex-Accival /Citicorp Group), carrying out merchant banking operations in Central and South America.
His responsibilities as Resident Economist and Assistant Managing Director included advising the bank on Country Risk and developing new business opportunities.
In February 1991, Mr. Kouyoumdjian moved to Chile.
Since that time he has advised financial institutions, business corporations, and diplomatic missions on Chilean & Latin American Country Risk, the Business Environment and Financial Markets.
He also writes for specialist business publications in several countries, and his first book, Perspectives Chili, in French, was published in Paris by Le Monde in June 2002.
From 1982 onwards, Mr. Kouyoumdjian was European Chairman of the Washington-based Association of Political Risk Analysts (APRA), and subsequently set-up its European successor in London (the Association for Political Risk Management), which was merged into the Society of Business Economists in 1991.
Mr. Kouyoumdjian graduated in 1970 from the Sorbonne in Paris where he read Applied Statistics.