Hayk Sargsyan is a Consultant at the World Bank Africa Region Finance and Private Sector Division. Before joining his current unit, Mr. Sargsyan worked for the Bank’s Development Economics Research Group focusing on investment climate. He has also held a position of research analyst with the World Security Institute covering Russia and other countries of Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS). Prior to coming to the US, Hayk worked as a senior specialist on private sector development at the Armenia’s Agency for State Property Management. Mr. Sargsyan has also lectured at the Saint Petersburg Institute of Foreign Economic Relations, Economics and Law, as well as served as a research assistant at the Economics Institute of Armenia’s National Academy of Sciences, where he received his doctoral degree in economics in 2002. He has published articles on international trade, investment and macroeconomic policy dealing with the CIS.