Armenak Antinyan is an Innovation Specialist for Sustainable Development Goals at UNDP Armenia. Previously he was an assistant professor in Economics at Tianjin University of Finance and Economics, China and held various academic and non-academic positions in Armenia, Austria, Germany and Switzerland.   Armenak obtained his Ph.D. in Behavioral and Experimental Economics at 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.  Armenak has published at such peer-reviewed journals as the Review of Development Economics, Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, the Journal of Behavioral and Experimental Economics and Social Indicators Research.