Ashot Gabrielyan
Payment Services and Data Governance
Ashot Gabrielyan joined the Central Bank of Armenia in February 2023 as the Bank’s first Chief Data Officer and, in May 2025, was entrusted with the leadership of the newly formed Payment Services and Data Governance Center. He also serves as Secretary of the Data Governance Committee and is a member of the Bank’s IT Committee. In addition to his duties at the Central Bank, Mr. Gabrielyan is the Chairman of the Board of Trustees of the Information Systems Agency of Armenia Foundation.
In his current role, Mr. Gabrielyan leads one of the Central Bank’s flagship transformation programs — the modernization of the national Electronic Payment System — a multi-year reform designed to align Armenia’s payment ecosystem with global standards, embed customer-centric design, and ensure long-term resilience through an integrated governance framework. He also directs the Bank’s enterprise-wide data governance agenda, setting standards for data quality, architecture, lifecycle management, and accessibility, and is a driving force behind data democratization across the institution.
Prior to these roles, Mr. Gabrielyan held several leadership positions within the Central Bank, including Expert Business Analyst and Project Manager, where he spearheaded financial infrastructure and digitalization initiatives such as the implementation of SAP Business Intelligence, ASWA, and the Armenian Mandatory Pension Information System (AMPIS). From 2018 to 2023, he served as CEO of ACRA Credit Reporting, where he led a comprehensive transformation of the bureau’s operations, resulting in significant gains in efficiency and profitability.
Mr. Gabrielyan has also served as a consultant to the World Bank and the Asian Development Bank, contributing to pension reform and digital transformation programs in Georgia, Ukraine, and Tajikistan.
Born in Yerevan, he earned his undergraduate degree in International Economic Relations from Yerevan State University of Economics (2009) and holds a PhD in Business Administration. He is an alumnus of the U.S. Department of State’s Global UGRAD program and studied at the University of Missouri – St. Louis.