Experience:

Vitosha Research, (1990-current)

Senior  Analyst

Selected Projects Experience:

Participation in:

• more than 150  representative and quota  surveys
•  50 qualitative surveys
• participation in design and testing of 4 econometric computer models of the Bulgarian socio-economic environment
• Assessment of Bulgaria IT Sectors Project
•  World Bank Project "E-readiness report"
  
• UNDP Project Early Warning System (1997-2002), including analysis on ethnic relations
• World Bank Project "Low-income housing Survey" - focused on Roma.
• Preparation of Phare 2002 ESC-Background Survey on Urbanization and Housing in Roma Neighborhoods
• USAID Project “Conflict Vulnerability Assessment”
• Political stability index (Eurasia group- Lehman Brothers – Deutsche Bank)   Project  (2001- )

Pub1ications:

• Democracy and Reform Guide, 1996 (Editor)
• Bulgarian 1997 Think-Tank Survey, Urban Institute, 1997
• Non-Government Organizations in Bulgaria, USAID, 1997
• Anti-corruption Action Plan and Corruption Monitoring in Bulgaria, Coalition 2000, Bulgaria, 1998
• Citizen Participation Projects Study, The Democratic Network Program (DNP), 1998
• Institutional Infrastructure of the NGO Sector: Organizations with Socio-Economic Orientation, The Democratic Network Program (DNP), 1999
• Regional Development and Local Government Reform: Condition, Factors, Trends and Roles of “The Tertiary Sector”, Local Government Initiative, 1999
  Feasibility Study on the Establishment of Technological Chitalishte (UNDP Project), 2000
• Corruption and Trafficking: Monitoring and Prevention, CSD, 2000
• Corruption, Trafficking and Institutional Reform, CSD, 2002
• The Drug market in Bulgaria, CSD, 2003
• Published numerous analyses and essays on political, social and economic issues in  Sociological Problems Quarterly and Kultura, Democratsia, Standart, Kapital and 24 chasa newspapers

Educational Background:

Master’s Degree, (1981 – 1986)

Sofia University, Philosophy Department  & German Phi1ology Department, Sofia, Bulgaria

PhD Candidate, (1987-1990)

Sofia University, Philosophy Department

Sofia, Bulgaria

International studies:

• Post-graduate work, (1989-90), Karl Marx University, Leipzig, Germany
• Training course on management in  broadcasting July-August,1991, and April 1994, Washington, DC, USA
• Course electronic media in Central and Eastern Europe, London, UK