Ani Artinyan

While residing in London to complete a 6-month research internship as part of her studies in Psychology, Ani Artinyan started feeling that the urge to develop her own potential, skills and personality had now opened out into a drive to show more initiative and responsibility for other people, places, ideas, concepts. Her personal view of a better world and sustainability is linked to helping people, countries or organizations implement existing opportunities or assisting them in developing such opportunities,  rather than directly financing them on single charitable occasions. In other words, in her opinion, a better way to aid is to create a stimulating climate and a stable environment, able to foster the development of regions, countries, towns, families, personalities. By chance, she notices a short, but informative article regarding the goals and activities of Thirdway on the web and, after a brief correspondence, joined the organization in October, 2009.
 
Ani will have completed her Master’s degree in Psychology in September,  2010. During her studies at the University of Constance, Germany, she specialized in clinical and neuropsychology and health psychology, but has also studied cognitive and emotional neuroscience, research methods, work and organizational psychology. She speaks English, German and Bulgarian fluently and has basic knowledge of Italian and Spanish. Extreme sports and playing the drums are her most enduring hobbies.
 
Working as a research assistant at the Department of General Psychology, Univ. of Constance and a research intern at the University of East London gave Ani the experience of working with people, observing deadlines and being scientifically objective above all.   She is going to contribute to different departments at Thirdway, including Marketing, Education,  in Human Resources in which she will serve as the Assistant Manager.