Dariya Pavlova is a foreign service officer at the Bulgarian Ministry of Foreign Affairs. She holds a master’s degree from the Paris Institute of Political Studies (Sciences Po) with major in International Security Studies and a postgraduate diploma in Strategic Studies from the Bulgarian National Defence College. Dariya’s professional interests are centred around bilateral and multilateral diplomacy in the field of arms control and non-proliferation. Apart from her policy-related background, she has research experience in the area of strategic stability and nuclear disarmament as an awardee of the 2020 OSCE-UNODA Scholarship for Peace and Security and participant in the 2023 CTBTO-CENESS Research Fellowship.