Mr. Avedikian has worked for six years at the Central Bank of the Republic of Armenia as the head of the Division for Legislative Development of the Legal Department. He has supervised a number of legal reform projects concerning banking regulation and supervision.

In November 2003, he joined the Armenian European Policy and Legal Advice Center, as the head of the Legal Team, where he provides high-level policy and legal advice to the Armenian Government on key strategic issues affecting the country's transition to a market economy, and forging bonds with the European Union. His responsibilities include also counseling the Government on issues of approximating the Armenian legislation to that of European Union's rules and standards.

Mr. Avedikian also lectures Company Law, Business Law and Financial and Banking Law at the Law Faculty of the French University in Armenia, and EU Law at the Legal Department of the European Regional Academy in Caucasus. He holds a LLM degree in European Union Commercial Law from the University of Leicester, UK. Mr. Avedikian is the author of Republic of Armenia's Law "On Credit Organizations", the Anti Money Laundering / Terrorism Financing legislation and the co-author of a number of other banking laws and regulations.

During his Humphrey year Mr. Avedikian will broaden his knowledge in US experience of banking and financial regulation with emphasis on developing his skills and expertise in Securities Regulation and Commercial Lending.