Aleksandar Kostadinov was  born in Shtip, North Macedonia. He graduated at the Faculty of Economics – Skopje in 2004 and obtained his postgraduate education from the University of Bologna (October, 2008) majoring Economics in transition countries. 

Mr Kostadinov worked as an economic analyst and researcher on various national and regional projects funded by the European Commission, ILO, IOM, OECD, USAID, EBRD, the British Council-Macedonia as well as local entities.