About IME - Staff

IME Executive Director is Dr. Krassen Stanchev, Ph.D, political scientist and former Member of Parliament, member of the President’s Economic Policies Council; awarded by Euromoney Publications as the best 1996 individual analyst for Bulgaria stanchev@ime.bg

IME full-time economists are:

Dr. Friedrich Bauersachs Ph. D., CIM Integrated Expert (Property Rights, Regional and Agrarian Economics)Senior Economist. bauersax@ime.bg

Assenka Yonkova Senior Economist (Banking and Capital Markets) assia@ime.bg

Diana Kopeva, Ph.D. (Senior Economist, Labor and Agri-economics) d.kopeva@ime.bg

Georgi Stoev (Privatization; Pension and Healthcare Reform) gstoev@ime.bg

Latchezar Bogdanov (Business Administration and Taxation) bogdanov@ime.bg

Svetlana Alexandrova Ph.D. (Senior Economist, Macroeconomics and Finance, International Business) svetla@ime.bg

Tzveta Dimitrova (Mortgage Financing) tzveta@ime.bg

Zora Blagoeva (International Economics and Business) zora2b@IME.bg

Pavlina Petrova (Office Manager) poly@ime.bg

Yordanka Gancheva (Finance Manager) dany@ime.bg

Martin Dimitrov ( Macroeconomics and Finance, International Business) MDimitrov@ime.bg

Petya Mandova ( Political Science) mandova@ime.bg

Bojidar Georgiev ( Trade and Tariffs)

IME part-time collaborators work on different projects or manage some on-going activities, like publications, statistics and so on. Currently there are 32 people working on different IME projects; among them are: Docho Michailov, President of ASSA Public Opinion Poll Agency (Polls, Small Sample Surveys), Georgi Ganev, Ph.D. (Transactions Costs Analysis); Rossen Rozenov (Macroeconomic and Statistics); Luibomir Dimitrov (Welfare and Labor Market Reforms). On issues related to company analysis - with Capital Consult Ltd.

Dr. Krassen Stanchev is a co-founder of Transparency International Bulgaria.