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...
Nadezhda Neynsky is a distinguished diplomat and politician with a remarkable career. She served as Bulgaria's Ambassador to Turkey from 2015 to 2021 and, more recently, was a member of the 2022/23 Cohort of the Advance Leadership Initiative at Harvard. Mrs Neynsky served as Deputy Speaker of...
A former EU diplomat, Ivo Walinga is a researcher and advisor specializing in East Asia's foreign policy, security, and political economy. He currently works as Research Fellow at the British think-tank Asia House from Seoul, where he researches the regional dynamics and green transition of...
Iren is a PhD Candidate in Political Science at Colorado State University. Her research focuses on security and foreign policy of the European Union, as well as geopolitics more broadly. She is currently studying the relational dynamics in the formation of the foreign policy ambitions...
Professor Todor Tagarev is Bulgaria's Minister of Defence (2023), a position he previously held in 2013. Throughout his political career, Todor has served the Bulgarian Ministry of Defence as Director for Defence Planning, as National Armaments Director, and as a member of the NATO Research...
Dr. Solomon Passy is the founder and president of the Atlantic Club of Bulgaria, and previously Bulgaria's Foreign Minister, Chairman of the OSCE and UN Security Council. Conceived in the 1990s as an NGO, the ACB promoted the idea of dissolution of the Warsaw Pact and Bulgaria’s accession in...