My friend Olga Ghazaryan was born in 1962 in Yerevan, the capital of Armenia, a small mountainous country in the Caucasus, and that time one of the republics that made up the USSR. I have known Olga since around 2003, when we worked together on Oxfam governance programming in Armenia and Georgia. I visited Armenia with her several times which was a great privilege. She is an amazing woman from whom I have learned so much.