Fiction writer and one of the most renowned Armenian PR specialists, Narek Malian was born to a family of priests and spent most of his childhood in St. Geghard monastery. His childhood played a decisive role in the formation of him as a person and his worldview.
After graduating from the Military college after Monte Melkonian, Narek got his first Masters’ Degree in International Law (Yerevan State University, 2001) and the second one in Public Administration (Armenian State University of Economics, 2015). Narek’s career made an interesting turn when after years of work for the Homicide Investigations Unit of the Military Police he decided to explore PR and continue his career in that direction. While heading the department of Political Research at Proxy PR company Narek established his own - "Peoplemeter" PR Agency, which was one of the most successful PR agencies in Armenia back in 2010s.
Narek served as the Adviser to the Head of Police of the Republic of Armenia from 2011 to 2017.
In 2019 Narek’s second PR company Malian PR was established, which is working with various clients till the moment.
Malian also teaches. In 2016-2019 he has been lecturing on “PR and Communication Ethics” at the Police Education Complex and “Strategic PR” at the Department of Sociology of Yerevan State University. -- malian.am