The Armenian National Committee-Western Region announced that Alex Sardar, Chief of Party with Counterpoint International, will participate in the “Homeland and The Diaspora: From Challenges to Solutions” panel at the upcoming ANC Grassroots weekend.

The event will take place from Friday, November 25 to Sunday, November 27, 2011, at the Sheraton Universal Hotel.

Sardar currently serves at the Chief of Party for the Civil Society and Local Government Support Program (CSLGSP) and is also Counterpart International’s Vice President of Programs of the Civil Society and Government Strengthening Practice Area. He has been living in Armenia for nearly a decade, working on USAID projects.

Before joining Counterpart, Sardar served as the Deputy Chief of Party of the USAID Armenia Legislative Strengthening Program, working with the National Assembly of Armenia on strengthening internal legislative processes, organizational management and constituency outreach mechanisms. His main areas of specialization include organizational development, political management and advocacy, high level policy engagement and legislative process; management of deliberative institutions, with emphasis on constituent relations and public outreach, as well as external policy interaction.

Sardar joins the panel on Homeland-Diaspora relations, which includes Nagorno Karabakh Republic (NKR) Representative to the United States Robert Avetisyan; Antranig Kasbarian, a specialist on Nagorno Karabakh; and Elizabeth Chouldjian, a specialist on the Javakh region of the Republic of Georgia.