BOARD OF DIRECTORS & OFFICERS
VAN KRIKORIAN
Chairman, CEO
Van Z. Krikorian joined Global Gold Corporation in 2003 and is responsible
for negotiating all contracts and overseeing all international operating
issues for the international gold mining, development and exploration
company. Previously, Mr. Krikorian was a partner in the New York office
of Vedder, Price, Kaufman & Kammholz and until 1998 practiced
with Patterson, Belknap, Webb & Tyler. He has represented Global
Gold Corporation as outside counsel since 1995.
Mr. Krikorian is an accomplished international attorney who has
done extensive work in strategic planning, structuring investments,
negotiating agreements and resolving disputes for businesses operating
overseas, primarily in the Central Asian and Transcaucasus Commonwealth
of Independent States (CIS), Ukraine, Russia the Middle East and
the Caribbean. These projects include energy, transportation, agribusiness,
banking, government regulation, trade, mining, non-profit, and investment
fund matters.
He is a widely-published and recognized authority on the legal,
political and economic developments in the former Soviet Union.
Mr. Krikorian is a founding member of the Turkish Armenian Reconciliation
Commission, and was appointed and served as a member of the US delegation
to the Moscow CSCE meetings of 1991 during the first Bush Administration.
In 1992, he served as Deputy Representative and Counselor to the
United Nations for the newly independent Republic of Armenia. Additionally,
he has testified before Congress, has participated in numerous international
conferences and is a frequent public speaker. In 2005, he was appointed
to the International Council of George Washington University, and
he is an adjunct Professor of Law at Pace University Law School.
Mr. Krikorian is also a former Director of Government and Legal
Affairs for the Armenian Assembly of America in Washington and has
served as chairman of the U.S.-Armenian Business Council and Chairman
of the Armenian Assembly’s Board of Directors. He is also
involved with several charities including the Armenian Assembly,
on whose board he sits.
He is a member of the American Bar Association, the Armenian Bar
Association, the New York Bar, the District of Columbia Bar, and
the Vermont Bar Association (Professional Responsibility Committee).
He is also admitted to practice in the United States Court of International
Trade and the United States Tax Court.
Mr. Krikorian received his B.A. in 1981 from George Washington
University and his J.D. in 1984 from Georgetown University Law Center.
In the summer of 1980, he studied at the Armenian Seminary in Bikfaya,
Lebanon. He resides with his wife, Priscilla, who is also an attorney,
and their four children in Rye, New York.
Selected Publications and Congressional Testimony:
“The Armenian Bankruptcy Law,” CIS
LawNotes, September 1997
“Foreign Investment
in Ukraine,” CIS LawNotes, June 1997
“New Ukrainian Foreign Investment Law Marks Progress,” CCH Doing Business in Eastern Europe, Number 8, August
1996
“Commonwealth of Independent States: Foreign
Investment in Power Projects,” CCH Doing Business in Eastern
Europe, Number 9, September 1996
“Ukraine’s
1996 Foreign Investment Law,” Tax Notes International Vol. 13 Number 11, September 1996
“Consequences
of Dissolution of Parliament Mitigated by Presidential Decree,” Doing Business In Eastern Europe, No. 5, May 1995
“An Introduction To Doing Business In Kazakhstan,”
Russian Oil & Gas Guide, Vol. 4, No. 3, July 1995
“Armenia, New Constitution,” CIS LawNotes,
August 1995
“New Armenian Constitution Strengthens
Civil Society,” Survey of East European Law,
Vol. 6 Number 9, September 1995
“Pipelines and
Politics in the Caspian Basin,” CIS LawNotes,
December 1995
“Armenia’s New Privatization
Program,” The Parker School Journal of East European
Law, 1994/Vol. 1 No. 3
“Armenia’s
Foreign Investment Law,” BNA’s Eastern Europe
Reporter, Volume 4, Number 25, December 1994
“Armenia’s
New Privatization Program,” Survey of East European
Law (“SEEL”), Vol. 5, No. 5, June 1994
“Armenia’s New Law Encourages More Foreign
Investment,” MASSIS, December 31, 1994
“Privatization In Armenia,” BNA’s Eastern
European Reporter, Volume 4, Number 13, June 1994
“Georgia, Developing Black Sea Ports,” CIS LawNotes,
August 1994
“Russia, Foreign Investor’s
Comfort Level,” CIS LawNotes, February 1994
“Turkmenistan, Introduction to Doing Business” CIS LawNotes, April 1994
“Armenian Law
Creates Favorable Climate For Business Operations,” CIS
LawNotes, June, August, and October 1993 volumes
“Armenia-Foreign
Investment Climate,” CCH Doing Business In Eastern
Europe, July 20, 1993, Volume 7
“President
Yeltsin’s New Agricultural Land Ownership Decree” CIS LawNotes, December 1993
“Immigration
Law and Crimes,” 16:6 Vermont Bar Journal 38
(December 1990);
“Hearings on H.R. 5114, Making
Appropriations for Foreign Operations, Export Financing, and
Related Program for fiscal year 1991,” Before the
Subcomm. on Foreign Operations of the Senate Appropriations
Comm. 101st Cong. 2nd Sess. (1990)
“Implementation
of the Helsinki Accords: Hearings on the Copenhagen CSCE Meeting
on the Human Dimension Before the Commission on Security and
Cooperation in Europe,” 101st Cong. 2nd Sess. (1990)
“Armenian Tragedies—The Darkness
of Precedents,” 16.3 Vermont Bar Journal 31 (June
1990);
“Senate Debates, Sidesteps Action on Genocide
Resolution,” 17 Armenian Assembly of America Journal 1 (Spring 1990)
Fighting Denial of the Armenian Genocide. 136 Cong. Rec. S.1212
(Feb. 20, 1990)
“Hearings on the Future of the
U.S.S.R. Before the Senate Foreign Relations Comm.,” 101st
Cong. 2nd Sess. (1990)
Interface Three: Legal
Treatment of Domestic Subsidiaries, co-editor. International
Law Institute, Washington, D.C. (1984)
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