Background
Adolfo was born on October 19, 1928 in Buenos Aires, Argentina; son of Minas and Lucía (Kalindjian) Atchabahian.
Adolfo was born on October 19, 1928 in Buenos Aires, Argentina; son of Minas and Lucía (Kalindjian) Atchabahian.
Adolfo studied at the University of Buenos Aires in Buenos Aires, Argentina. In 1951 he became a certified public accountant. In two years he received a degree of the Doctor of Philosophy in economics, with honors. From 1965 to 1966 Adolfo had an international tax program at Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States.
Adolfo worked at Negri, Teijeiro, and Incera in Buenos Aires, Argentina specializing in domestic and international corporate, individual tax planning and tax litigation. He worked as a professor at tax law school, he worked as a tax expert and director of the office of public finance. From 1954 to 1966 he worked as a professor at public finance school of economic. In 1977 he was a tax consultant in Buenos Aires, Argentina.
He was a consultant at the United Nations Centre on Transnational Corporations from 1976 to 1977. In 1982 he worked at the Inter American Development Bank in Bolivia. In a year he worked in Honduras. He worked at the International Monetary Fund in Costa Rica in 1990 and Perú. He was a special overseas consultant in Tax Management, Inc. in Washington, D.C, United States.
Adolfo married to Alicia Terzian on April 13, 1961. They had a daughter: Diana Lucía. They divorced in November 1964, and he abandoned Diana. After, he married to Ani Eksiyan on September 7, 1969. They had two children: Laura Fabiola, Abel Adolfo.