Mrs. Adelaida Baghdasaryan joined ADR Partners in June 2015 as a mediator. Mrs. Baghdasaryan graduated from Yerevan State University in 1996, after which she got her master degrees from the American University of Armenia in 2006 as a Master of Comparative Legal Studies and from Harvard University Law School in 2015 as a Master of Laws.

Mrs. Baghdasaryan passed professional trainings in a number of fields, such as Corporate Boards and Governance, Sustainable Urban Development, Monitoring of Grants and Cooperative Agreements, Ethics in Grants Management, International Humanitarian Law, etc.

Previously she worked for the U.S. Embassy in Yerevan as a Political Program Assistant at the Political-Economic Section and reported on issues related to political and economic developments, foreign assistance, governance, corruption; coordinated and provided legal support for all U.S. Government (USG) funded programs in Armenia; resolved U.S. Assistance Program Implementing Partners’ and Agencies’ problems related to taxes and customs in collaboration with the Armenian State Revenue Committee and Justice Sector; served as Embassy’s Primary Point of Contact for Assistance Programs.

She also worked for the Center For Agribusiness and Rural Development as an Assistant, National Assembly of Republic of Armenia (RA NA) as a Chief Administrative Officer and Assistant to Nagorno Karabakh  (NK) National Assembly Representative in RA NA, RA National Statistics Service Project of the World Bank as an Assistant to the World Bank Consultant, etc.

Since 2009 Mrs. Baghdasaryan is a legal consultant at ARMADEL Consulting Law Office, where she is providing legal support and guidance to legal entities/business clients engaged in international business and individuals in resolving their legal matters outside Armenia. In July 2015 she has been appointed as LL.M. Program Chair at the American University of Armenia where she has been teaching since 2010.

Languages: Armenian, Russian, English, Spanish

Married, has three children.