Previously he was the research director at CRRC-Armenia, an adjunct lecturer at Agribusiness Teaching Center and the American University of Armenia, a postdoctoral fellow at the University of Erlangen-Nuremberg, Germany, a visiting fellow at the University of Innsbruck, Austria, and a research assistant at the University of St. Gallen, Switzerland. He also serves as a consultant for development organizations. Dr. Antinyan obtained his Ph.D. in Behavioral and Experimental Economics from the Graduate School of Economics and Management at the University of Venice, Italy. Prior to doctoral studies he received MA in Quantitative Economics (double degree) from the University Paris 1 Pantheon-Sorbonne, France, and the University of Venice, Italy, as well as BSc in Economics from Yerevan State University, Armenia.