We are pleased to welcome new BEF Ambassador – Mr. Yasen Georgiev (BEF Ambassador to Bulgaria).

Yasen Georgiev is Executive Director of the Economic Policy Institute (EPI) – a Sofia-based think-tank with 27+ years of track record in researching, analysing and explaining economic and multidimensional trends in Bulgaria and South-East Europe.

Mr. Georgiev has been with the EPI since 2006 where he was firstly appointed Research Fellow and then Head of the International Projects and Programmes unit. Prior to that, he worked at the Ministry of Defence of the Republic of Bulgaria and Beiersdorf Bulgaria. In 2010-2011 Yasen Georgiev was a visiting fellow at the Association of German Chambers of Commerce and Industry and at the European Policy DG of the Federal Ministry of Economics and Technology of Germany.

Yasen Georgiev is also a member of the National Advisory Board of the Diplomatic Institute and member of the Public Consultations Council within the Committee on European Affairs of the National Assembly of the Republic of Bulgaria. He is also a member of Team Europe Direct. Since 2008 he has been the Bulgaria-Coordinator of the Marshall Memorial Fellowship – a flagship leadership development program of the German Marshall Fund of the United States.

His focus on the intersection of economy, public policy and international relations was sharped during his academic and extracurricular studies at the University of National and World Economy (Sofia), Sofia University “St. Kliment Ohridski”, Ludwigs-Maximilians University (Munich) and Hertie School of Governance (Berlin).  

Mr. Georgiev contributes frequently to local and foreign media outlets, most recently to the Bulgarian National Radio, Bulgarian National Television, Bloomberg TV (Bulgaria), TV Europa (Bulgaria), Euronews (Bulgaria) Emerging Europe (UK), ORF (Austria), Visegrad Insight (Poland), Hospodářské noviny (Czech Republic), Latvian Radio 1 and Balkan Insight.