IMIR - International Center for Minority Studies and Intercultural Relations

Date and place of birth

19.05.1949, Samokov

Marital status

Married, one child

Professional Background

Since 2002

Program Director at the International Center for Minority Studies and         Intercultural

Relations (IMIR)                                                                                                                                                     

1998 - 2002

Chief-Coordinator - IMIR

1997-1998

Head of "Systems Development" Sector in the Informational Systems and

Communications Directorate at the Ministry of Labour and Social Policy

1996-1997

Head of "Co-ordination of Strategies, Programs and Projects" Department at

the Ministry of Labour and Social Welfare

1994-1996

Chief Expert in "Co-ordination of Strategies, Programmes and Projects" Department

 at the Ministry of Labour and Social Welfare

1993-1994

Expert in International Relations at the Women's Democratic Union, Sofia

1984-1992

Head of the "International Co-operation" Sector at the National Center for

Training and Retraining at the Ministry of Labour and Social Affairs, Sofia

1981-1984

Expert and Chief Expert in the International Relations department at the

Center for Professional Development, Sofia

1978-1980

Translator in the Joint Institute for Nuclear Research, Dubna, Russia

1972-1975

High school teacher in English language

Educational Status

1963-1968

High education in the English Language School in Plovdiv

1968-1972

Higher education in English and Russian Philology at the Sofia University

(M.A. in English philology)

1986

Diploma from a six-month training course in French at the Institute for Foreign

Students in Sofia

Participation in International Projects

•           Tripartite project between the Bulgarian Government, ILO-Geneva and UNDP

             on the "Modules of  Employable Skills Approach" (coordinator)

•           Training of Middle-Level Managers from the Developing Countries

          - Joint project between the Ministry  of Labour  and Social Affairs /the National

            Center for Training and Retraining/ and UNIDO (coordinator). 

•           Coordinator of the European Regional Project "Vocational Training Systems

                    and New Technologies", financed by the UNDP and ILO as the Executing Agency.

•           Coordinator of UNDP/MLSP Project on Promotion of the National Programme

       for Social Development (1996-1998)

•           National co-ordinator of the EU-funded project "Racial and ethnic minorities,

       immigration and the role of trade unions in combating discrimination and

       xenophobia, in encouraging participation and in securing social inclusion and

       citizenship"  2002- 2005 (under 5th framework program)

•           Training Executives in Intercultural Dialogue at Local Communities

       (under the Leonardo da Vinci Program - coordinator)

•           Undocumented Worker Transitions: Compiling evidence concerning the

             boundaries and processes of change in the status and work of undocumented

             workers in Europe 2007-2009 (under the 6th framework  program– coordinator)

•           Religious Diversity and Secular Models in Europe – Innovative Approaches to

       Law and Policy 2010-2012 (under the 7th framework program – coordinator)

Some of the translations, editing and publications

1.      The Albanian National Problem and the Balkans, vol. 1 of the Urgent Anthropology series.

       Sofia: IMIR, 2001 (translator).

2.      Albanian Prospects, vol. 2 of the Urgent Anthropology series. Sofia: IMIR, 2003 (translator).

3.      Jews in the Bulgarian Hinterland. An Annotated Bibliography. Compiled by

                   Jacques Eskenazi and Alfred Krispin. Sofia: IMIR, 2002 (editor).

4.      Trade Unions against Racism and Discrimination (co-author). Sofia: IMIR, 2005

5.      "Racism in Post-Communist Bulgaria and Trade Union Responses." In: Transfer.

      Quarterly of the ETUI-REHS Research Department, vol.13 No 3, p.447 (co-author). Brussels:

      ESN, 2007