Sona Ayvazyan is a founding member of TIAC. She has got involved in project activities of the organization in 2002. Since September 2016 she is Executive Director of TIAC and is responsible for the overall management and oversight of the grants and general reporting. Sona was the Chair of TIAC from late 2010 till 2012. At present, she is also leading the organization’s projects related to elections, public assets management and human rights.

Before joining TIAC’s team, Sona worked as an environmental policy expert in some USAID- and UNDP-funded environment related projects. She is the author or co-author of more than 10 publications.

Sona has a diploma from National Polytechnic University of Armenia, holds a Master’s degree in Political Science from the American University of Armenia and a Master’s degree in International Environmental Policy from Monterey Institute of International Studies, U.S. 

Armine joined TIAC team in November 2020. Prior she was the Spokesperson of the “Hayastan” All Armenian Fund. She lived in Strasbourg, France from 2015 and repatriated in 2019. Previously Armine was the Communications and Outreach Program Manager at “ATP” (Armenia Tree Project) Charitable Foundation (2007-2015). She was also the Regional News reporter in English at “Hi FM” Radio Station. Armine holds a Master’s degree in English Philology from Yerevan State University, she studied French as a foreign language at the Université populaire européenne in Stasbourg. Armine is fluent in several languages.

Varuzhan Hoktanyan joined TIAC in 2002 as public policy expert. From 2009 to September 2016 he was the Executive Director of the organization. Currently he works as Project Director, who is responsible for managing the organization’s public procurement and election related projects, etc. He is the key expert of public procurement and anti-corruption policy in TIAC.

Before joining TIAC’s team, Varuzhan worked as a researcher in Yerevan Physics Institute, research associate at the Center for Policy Analysis of the American University of Armenia and research assistant in The University of Texas at Dallas.

Varuzhan graduated from the Department of Physics of the Yerevan State University, and then post-graduate studies in high energy and elementary particle physics of the Yerevan Physics Institute with the status of All But Dissertation (ABD). Later he received his Master of Arts degree in Political Science and International Relations at the American University of Armenia. He also holds a Master degree in Public Affairs of the School of Social Sciences of The University of Texas at Dallas. Varuzhan is the author and co-author of more than 15 publications.  

Gayane Baghdasaryan  joined TIAC as a Project Manager in July 2021. Gayane is responsible for the ensuring the project implementation, coordination and oversight; conducting quality assurance and leading the monitoring and evaluation; managing donor relations and liaison with all project stakeholder; conducting research and policy analysis in the respective field and supervising and providing guidance to project personnel throughout the project implementation. She has also worked in TIAC as a Project Assistant in  2016.

Before re-joining TIAC team Gayane worked at “World Vision Armenia” charitable organization supporting grant acquisition and management of the organization.  

Gayane holds Master’s degree from Central European University in International Relations and European Studies in Budapest and recently graduated from Bush School of Government and Public Service (Texas A&M University) with master’s in Public Policy and Administration.

Armen Khudaverdyan joined the Transparency International Anticorruption Center (TIAC) team as an expert in November 2019. He is responsible for developing public policy reform papers, legislative recommendations, carrying out studies and analyses for TIAC.

Armen has extensive experience in public administration, including developing and implementing territorial administration, local government and public service reforms and anticorruption policy; drafting and introducing integrity systems; writing professional, operational and analytical reports; academic work and teaching, as well as excellent skills in project management and evaluation. 

Prior to joining TIAC, Armen was the Deputy Chairman of the Commission on Ethics of High-Ranking Officials of Armenia. He held senior positions in RA Government staff; RA Ministries of Territorial Administration and Economy; headed the Secretariat of the Reform Commission of the State Government System; coordinated the work of reform working groups; acted as an expert in a number of reputable international organizations’ - OSCE, USAID, UNDP and DFID - public administration reform projects.

Armen Khudaverdyan holds a PhD in Economics. He graduated from Yerevan Institute of National Economy in 1981 with a diploma of higher education in Economics. He received his PhD degree in Economics in 1990. Armen is an author of over a dozen of academic articles related to various issues of public administration. He also published a monograph entitled  “Public Sector Management Reforms in the Republic of Armenia: Organizational Structures of Governance, Civil Service.”

Harout joined TIAC in 2021, ahead of the June 20 early parliamentary election, to assist with monitoring political party activities and compliance with legislation. Before joining TIAC, Harout was an iGorts Diaspora Fellow at the Ministry of Justice, where he participated in the activities of the Parliamentary Working Group on Electoral Reform. He writes on the topic of election systems and the reform process in Armenia for EVN Report and EPDE.

He holds a Master in Public Administration from Harvard University and a Master in Electrical and Computer Engineering from the University of Waterloo in Canada.

Aren Manukyan joined TIAC in July 2021 as Project Manager. Prior to joining TIAC, Aren worked at Media Initiatives Center as Project Manager. Before joining the NGO sector Aren has been involved in marketing teams for Beeline and later HAYPOST Aren Manukyan holds an MA from Yerevan State University (Faculty of Oriental Studies) and from Jagiellonian University in Kraków, Poland (Faculty of Social and Political Science). He has also studied at the universities of Damascus, Syria and Cairo, Egypt.

Aleksey Petrosyan re-joined TIAC team as a Project Manager in May 2021.  From 2018-2020  Aleksey led elections and local governance-related projects in TIAC. Through his contribution and efforts, TIAC successfully completed four observation missions of local and national elections, in the result of which more than 800 observers were trained and took part in oversight of 2018 snap Yerevan and Parliamentary Elections, as well as 2 Local Government election cycles in 2019.

Aleksey started his career in 2004 as a journalist. Later, he worked at the Union of Communities of Armenia as Assistant to the Head of the Armenian Delegation to the Congress of the Council of Europe, and Program Coordinator of the Union. In 2008 - 2012, he worked as an Expert in media monitoring at the International Foundation for Electoral Systems (IFES). He was a Consultant on elections, election journalism and human rights in Advanced Public Research (APR) group, as well as Project Manager at Oxfam in Armenia, Public Journalism Club and UN International Organization for Migration (IOM).

Mr Aleksey Petrosyan holds a Master Degree in International Relations and Political Science from Yerevan State University. He is a certified Project Management Professional with sound knowledge in strategic and project management, who has led more than 20 of local and international projects in elections, human rights, food security, disaster risk reduction, etc.

Mariam Hoveyan joined TIAC as Electoral Projects Assistant in 2016. In July 2017 she worked as Assistant in "Engaged Citizenry for Responsible Governance" project. She later became Observation mission coordinator and is now the Project Manager responsible for the organization of anti-corruption education.

Before joining TIAC team Mariam worked as regional coordinator in World Vision Armenia and  in a number of financial organizations.  

Mariam received her bachelor’s degree in Economics from Gavar State University and Alexander Technological Educational Institute of Thessaloniki and master’s degree from Yerevan State University and Polytechnic University of Turin.

Anzhela Amirjanyan joined TIAC Election team as Election Project Assistant in October 2018. Currently she works as Project coordinaor.  Anzhela  is responsible for engaging observers and monitors and for coordinating their work.

Before joining TIAC Anjela worked as Translator in the Department of Public Information in UN Office (UNDPI). Anjela worked as an Intern in the Directorate-General for External Policies of the European Parliament in Brussels. She has experience in research and project management.

Anjela holds a Bachelor’s degree in Linguistics/Translation from Yerevan State University of Languages and Social Science and a Master’s degree in International Relations.

Sargis Ghanyan joined TIAC Election team as Project Assistant in October 2018. He is responsible for assistance in observers’ recruitment and organizational and content based activities throughout the process of observation.

He was AIESEC international youth organization Graduate. Before joining TIAC team Sargis worked at “America Group” HR unit as evaluation and talent management specialist. From 2011 to 2012 he led “AIESEC in Armenia” NGO and presented it in annual meetings in Mexico, Kenia, India and Hungary.  

Sargis graduated from Synopsys Armenia Education Department of State Engineering University of Armenia and holds master’s degree in Electronic Design Automation.

Manushak Alaverdyan joined TIAC in January 2015 first as Finance Assistant, then Specialist being responsible for a wide range of financial functions. From August 2017 Manushak works in TIAC as Grants Manager. Her responsibilities include but are not limited to managing sub-grants provided by the organization, monitoring financial flows and oversight of other grant relates issues. She is also responsible for supporting financial and accounting management of the organization.

Before joining TIAC team, Manushak worked at Counterpart International Armenia as Grants Assistant. She has a broad range of experience in revision of financial reports and budgets, and other grant related activities.

Manushak graduated from Yerevan Brusov State University of Languages and Social Sciences, Department of Foreign Languages.

Zhanet joined TIAC in October 2020 as a Fundraising Manager. She is responsible for pursuing new funding opportunities to support TIAC programming as well as inclusion of “Money Laundering and Counter Terrorism Financing” component in the framework of anti-corruption education provided by TIAC.

Zhanet has started her career as a Macroeconomist in the Department of Monetary Policy in the Central Bank of Armenia. She has then gained extensive experience in the development sector which started with a position of Project Acquisition Manager in a British development consulting company VGM Partners, where she was responsible for international tender contracts funded by donors like EU, WB, USAID, ADB, etc. Later, Zhanet joined World Vision Armenia as a Grants Acquisition and Management Officer and was responsible for acquisition of new donor-funded projects including the design of project proposals as well as positioning with new funding organization with the purpose of enlarging the donor portfolio. Zhanet has also cooperated with UNDP Armenia where she was responsible for small grants component, in particular, close monitoring of implementation of awarded projects, including coaching of grantees to improve the quality of project deliverables.

Zhanet holds a Bachelors’ Degree in International Economic Relations from the Armenian State University of Economics and a Master’s Degree in Economics from the American University of Armenia․

Gohar Hayryan joined the TIAC financial team as our Accountant in 2018. She is responsible for the organization's accounting and finance functions.

Before joining the TIAC team, Gohar worked at the Accountancy Training Center as Chief Accountant. She brings six years of experience in accounting, finance and management.

Gohar graduated from Yerevan MFB Finance Academy with a degree in Accounting and Taxation.  She is an accountant, accredited by the Ministry of Finance.

Christina Margaryan joined TIAC as Office Manager in 2008. Currently she works Human Resources and Organizational Development Coordinator, who is responsible for ensuring the development/update and enforcement of human resource management policies and procedures, contract management, as well the coordination organizational development activities of TIAC.
Before joining TIAC, she worked as an Office/HR manager in US based company SolarEn LLC.

She has extensive experience in human resource management, organizational development, labor legislation, etc.

Christina graduated from Yerevan State University, department of Oriental (Arabic) Studies, after which she received her Master degree in Comparative Legal Studies at the American University of Armenia.

Lusine Stepanyan joined TIAC as Administrative Assistant in 2015. Currently she works as Events and Administrative Coordinator. Lusine is responsible for organizing and carrying out events, trainings, seminars, as well as for the procurement of the organization, including negotiations with service providers and oversight of delivery of services.

Before joining TIAC she worked in “Mary Kay Armenia” US based  company.

Lusine graduated from Yerevan State University, Department of Philosophy, and received Master’s degree of Philosophy. 

Narine Nushervanyan joined TIAC as Office manager in November 2021. 
She is responsible for the administrative/financial, organizational and technical work of the office.

Before joining TIAC, Narine worked as Deputy Director of Education in “IATC” Educational Fund and as researcher in YSU.

Narine graduated from Yerevan State University, department of Philology, and gained her MA  in Diaspora Studies and International Relations. She also graduated from the postgraduate department of the YSU.
 

Khachik cooperates with TIAC as Anti-Corruption Expert and his responsibilities include coordination and discharge of sectorial researches, study of specific issues relevant to anti-corruption fight and developing products and coordination of TIAC’s cooperation with whistleblowers.

His cooperation with the TIAC started from the late 2008, when he was involved as a Lawyer for the Advocacy and Assistance Center in Yerevan, operated by TIAC. He is a member of TIAC since 2010.

Khachik is a graduate of the University of Zurich (LL.M) and American University of Armenia (LL.M).

Hayk cooperates with TIAC as Legal Expert since 2019. His responsibilities include developing methodologies for monitoring and research in certain areas of the organization’s activity, making expert legislative recommendations, and some others.

Before joining TIAC Hayk worked in private organizations, Police, Investigative Committee, Prosecutor General’s Office, systems of tax service and OECD Yerevan Office as Expert.

Hayk holds a PhD in Law, he is a lecturer at Yerevan State University’s Faculty of Law and Faculty of Economics and Management. He was a lecturer in French University in Armenia. Hayk is an author of more than 30 studies.

Anush joined TIAC team as Lawyer in 2019. She is responsible for studying public policy, including laws and bills and making data analysis, as well as developing of expert legislative recommendations for public reforms in required areas, etc..

Before joining TIAC, she worked as Assistant Attorney in “Grigoryan I.T.” Law Office in Moscow.

Anush holds a PhD in Law. She is a lecturer at Russian-Armenian University’s Department of Criminal Law and Criminal Procedure Law, Institute of Law and Politics. She is an author and co-author of more than 15 studies.