Vartine Ohanian

Vartine Ohanian (Arabic: فارتينيه أوهانيان, Armenian: Վարդինե Օհանյան; born 1 January 1984 in Burj Hammoud, Matn District) is a Lebanese politician of Armenian descent who served as the Lebanese Minister of Youth and Sports from 2020 to 2021.

[1] Vartine received her secondary education at the Yeghishe Manoogian and the Levon and Sophia Hagopian college,[1] both Armenian schools.

She later obtained an MBA at the Institute of Social Sciences of the University of Lebanon a masters degree in social psychology from the same university.

[2] She later studied project management at the Haigazian University.

[3] In January 2020 she became a Minister for Youth and Sports in the Government of Hassan Diab[4] after her nomination by the Dashnak Party[2] She was one of the six female ministers in the Diab Government which included twenty ministries, which was viewed as a step in the right direction towards gender equality in Lebanese politics.