Yasen Georgiev is Executive Director of the Economic Policy Institute (EPI), a Sofia-based think-tank with more than 29 years of experience in researching, analysing, and explaining economic and multidimensional trends in Bulgaria and South-Eastern Europe.
He joined EPI in 2006, initially serving as a Research Fellow before becoming Head of the International Projects and Programmes Unit. Prior to that, he worked at the Ministry of Defence of the Republic of Bulgaria and at Beiersdorf Bulgaria. In 2010–2011, he was a visiting fellow at the Association of German Chambers of Commerce and Industry and at the European Policy Directorate 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 of Bulgaria and of the Public Consultations Council within the Committee on European Affairs of the National Assembly of the Republic of Bulgaria. He is also part of Team Europe Direct.
Since 2008, he has served as Bulgaria Coordinator of the Marshall Memorial Fellowship, the flagship leadership development programme of the German Marshall Fund of the United States. He was a 2017 fellow of Aspen Institute Romania within its Young Leaders Programme and a 2010/2011 fellow of the Robert Bosch Foundation through the Carl Friedrich Goerdeler-Kolleg residence fellowship programme.
His expertise at the intersection of economics, public policy, and international relations was shaped through his academic and extracurricular studies at the University of National and World Economy, Sofia University St. Kliment Ohridski, Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich, and Hertie School in Berlin.
Yasen Georgiev regularly contributes analyses and commentary to Bulgarian and international media outlets, including Bulgarian National Radio, Bulgarian National Television, Bloomberg TV Bulgaria, Euronews Bulgaria, Financial Times, Emerging Europe, and others.