Aram Simonyan is an Associate Professor from the ISEC National Academy of Sciences of Armenia, where he was Chair of the Economics Department. In 2023, he received his second doctorate degree in Social Sciences at the University of Kiel, Germany and was selected as a Global Young Academy member.

Advanced in eight languages and certified as a Project Management Professional (PMP), he held visiting positions at various European universities. Also, he was a Weiser Professional Fellow at the Gerald Ford School of Public Policy and Fulbright Scholar at the Ross School of Business at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor (USA). He published numerous articles in high-ranking journals, including a co-author publication in Nature.
Currently, at the Global Young Academy, he is a co-lead of the Theme Bridging Science and Society.