Biography
Luiza Ayvazyan-Galanteryan has more than five years’ experience in grants management and networking/international and local fundraising, and about ten years’ experience in implementing and coordinating educational, anticorruption, policy-making and research projects within local and international organizations. Prior to EPF Luiza worked as a Fundraising Manager at the Caucasus Institute Foundation. The latter is a policy think-tank promoting policy-making in Armenia. She also worked at Transparency International Anti-Corruption Center/Armenia as a Coordinator of “Promoting Transparency and Accountability in the Defense Sector in Armenia” project.
In July 2018 Luiza joind EPF Armenia team as fundraising specialist. Luiza was a Program Manager at the Armenian Branch of National Democratic Institute for International Affairs (NDI). NDI is a Washington D.C. based organization which supports democratic institutions and practices. She holds Master’s Degree in International Relations from Russian-Armenian (Slavonic) University. Luiza also studied Political Journalism at the Caucasus Institute Foundation. From 2015 to 2016 she studied at Yerevan School of Political Studies affiliated with the Council of Europe. Apart from professional education, Luiza actively participated in a number of national and international conferences/workshops, such as Young Political Leaders Program of the European Parliament/Brussels, World Forum for Democracy/Strasbourg, European diplomacy Workshop/Warsaw, etc.