Armen Arzumanyan has served as Chief of Party or Deputy Chief of Party or Resident Project Manager on multiple USAID funded projects, where he has led large teams of local and foreign professionals, successfully negotiating large reform programs with national governments and implementing regional integration projects.

Mr. Arzumanyan has played a key role in developing legal and regulatory frameworks conducive to development of small hydro, wind, solar and small heat-and-power generation. He specializes in large power systems stability and synchronous operations, energy sector reform, focusing on energy policy, power system design and engineering, utility operations and regulations.

Mr. Arzumanyan has experience developing and negotiating with national governments large restructuring programs and multi-nation regional power integration and cooperation programs. He has managed utility commercialization programs, including the implementation of business improvement strategies in such areas as internal controls, anti-corruption, metering, billing and collections, and loss reduction in distribution and transmission. He worked in Armenia, Russia, Kyrgyzstan, Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, Georgia, Ukraine, Mongolia, Afghanistan, Tanzania, Ethiopia.