All board members are volunteers and receive no re-numeration in any form from Orran |
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Raffi K. Hovannisian with his wife Armine K. Hovannisian is the founder and honorary member of Orran. He served as independent Armenia's first foreign minister in 1991-1992. He has a JD from Georgetown University Law Center and a MMLD from the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy, Tufts University. Mr. Hovannisian is the founding director of the Armenian Center for National and International Studies. He has held a number of positions namely Executive Chairman of "Hayastan" All-Armenian Fund (1998) and Chief of Department of Information and Publications in the Republic of Armenia. He is also the founder and director of the Armenian Bar Association.Mr. Hovannisian practiced international law and civil litigation in the firms of Hill, Farrer and Burrill, Whitman & Ransom, Stroock & Stroock & Lavan, Coudert Brothers (1985-1989); and was a lecturer of Armenian History at Tufts University (1981-1982). He is currently member of RA Parliament.
Mr. Hovannisian although a founder, he is not a member of the Orran Board.
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Armine K. Hovannisian with her husband Raffi K. Hovannisian founded Orran in the year 2000. She was born in Armenia, and moved with her family to the United States as a young child. She holds a B.A. in Diplomacy and World Affairs from Occidental College, and is a graduate of the School of Law of the University of California in Los Angeles. She was a practicing civil litigator in Los Angeles prior to moving to Armenia more than ten years ago with her husband, Raffi, and their children. Before assuming her current post as Executive Director of Junior Achievement of Armenia, Mrs. Hovannisian was the Director of Project Hope. The Hovannisians are the parents of five children, ranging in age from six to sixteen years. Moved by the plight of the street children in Yerevan, the Hovannisians founded Orran in April 2000, with the initial intent of assisting sixteen vulnerable street children.
Ms. Hovannisian serves as the Chairman to Orran Board of Directors from its inception until now.
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Molly Wynn Owen was born in the United States, graduated from Georgetown University in Washington DC and received a Master's degree from the London School of Economics. She has worked for various NGOs and international organisations around the world, focusing on income generation for women and grassroots healthcare reform. Most recently she worked in London on environmental sustainability, with a speciality in the commercial property sector. Molly has just moved to Armenia with her husband, a British diplomat. She joined the Orran Board in September 2009.
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Susan Yacubian Klein was born in Boston , Massachusetts, graduated from Vassar College and received a Master's degree in education from Columbia Teacher's College and a second Master's degree from Rutgers University in counseling psychology. Her early career was in education and educational administration. From 1984 through 1993, she was Director of Admission at Solebury School in New Hope, Pennsylvania. Since 1993, she has been living and working in Armenia on NGO development and income generation projects including the establishment of the Armenia Craft Center. From 1998 to 2006, Ms. Klein worked for the Armenia Tree Project as Country Director and President of the ATP Foundation. She currently is consulting on an income generation project in India. Ms. Klein joined the Orran Board of Director's in April 2000 and served as its Chairperson from 2003 through 2006.
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Dean Cooper was born in the United States and graduated from Nova
Southeastern University in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, with a BS degree in
Professional Management. He has nearly 20 years in the Financial Services
Industry, working for some of the largest companies in the world. Dean
recently moved to Armenia with HSBC as the Chief Technology and Services
Officer for HSBC Bank Armenia cjsc, residing in Yerevan. Additionally, he
is a Paul Harris Fellow with Rotary International and has volunteered with
numerous charitable organizations. Dean is married and has four children,
ages 9 to 17.
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Krikor Krikorian was born in Palestine and moved with his family to Cyprus in 1948 and then to the UK in 1960. He holds a BSc Chemical Engineering Degree from Manchester University. After 12 years with Exxon, he formed his own consulting company with two other colleagues, and helped to establish KBC Advanced Technologies as one of the major independent consultancy companies in the downstream oil refining industry. He served on the board of KBC until its floatation on the UK stock market in 1997. On his first visit to Armenia he became aware of the need for Orran's work and since his retirement in 2001, he has been involved in an advisory role and also as a Financial Director to the Orran board as well as being one of Orran's major benefactors.
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