Yasen Georgiev is Executive Director of the Economic Policy Institute – a Sofia-based think-tank with 29+ years of track record in researching, analysing and explaining economic and multidimensional trends in Bulgaria and South-Eastern Europe.
Yasen 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. Yasen Georgiev is 2017 fellow of the Aspen Institute Romania within its Young Leaders Program and 2010/2011 fellow of the Robert Bosch Foundation (Germany) within the Carl Friedrich Goerdeler-Kolleg residence fellowship program.
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). Yasen Georgiev contributes to local and foreign media outlets, such as to the Bulgarian National Radio, Bulgarian National Television, Bloomberg TV (Bulgaria), TV Europa (Bulgaria), Euronews (Bulgaria), Financial Times, Emerging Europe (UK), ORF (Austria), Het Financieele Dagblad (the Netherlands), Visegrad Insight (Poland), Alternatives Economiques (France), Hospodářské noviny (Czech Republic), NE Global, Latvian Radio 1 and Balkan Insight.