UA: Early Childhood Education and Care SK: Digital Transformation and Curriculum Reform of Primary and Secondary Education BG: Design of primary- and secondary-education policy implementation programs HR: Sustainable, Equitable and Efficient School EducationBG: Analysis of the ECEC sector with focus on preschool education and design of ECEC policy implementation programs

Clients/Part-time employers: Council of Europe (CoE), Goethe-Institut, Market Links, Child and Space Association, etc. Current assignment: International consultant, INSCHOOL, Joint EC-CoE Programme: Desegregation of School Education in Slovakia Major previous assignments: Head of Research Team for a study commissioned by the Bulgarian Ministry of Education and Science examining the social climate in schools and the interaction between parents and schools. Member of the Consultative Council on VET to the Minister of Education, BG.Head of Research Team for the Bulgarian part of an international study on parenting of adolescents; assignment by UNICEF’s Regional Office ECA; report published by UNICEF Bulgaria. Member of an international expert team consulting on the prison reform in Bulgaria for Council of Europe.Head of Research Team for a large-scale study of the sectors supporting the early childhood development in Bulgaria. The research team included members from the Bulgarian Academy of Science. Multiple published texts. Positions/Roles: Team Leader/Head of Research Team (repeatedly); Consultant (repeatedly); Program Coordinator Education/Project Manager; Specialist Education and Social Services /Acting Program and Development Director; Member of an International Expert Team.

2003 – 2016, Multiple assignments including researches, policy evaluations and recommendations, intervention- programs and projects, consultancies, project proposals, situation analyses, training and capacity building, presentations, and other activities in Armenia, Bangladesh, Belarus, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia, Cyprus, Ethiopia, Georgia, Germany, Ghana, Hungary, Kenya, Latvia, Liberia, Montenegro, R. of N. Macedonia, Nepal, the Netherlands, Romania, Serbia, Slovakia, Sweden, Turkey, Ukraine, etc.A selection of assignments includes: 2015 – 2016, Leading researcher; project focused on prevention of school drop-out of adolescent girls from rural and semi-urban areas in Ethiopia. Coordinated the activities with the Ethiopian team and the Dutch funding agency; led the field research, analysis and drafted a research report. Served also as a project manager. The research report published by Girls Not Brides.2015 – 2016, Project co-manager responsible for the research work-stream within an EU project on prevention of bullying in school in Bulgaria, Romania, Slovakia, Germany, the Netherlands, Sweden, UK. Coordinated the research activities in all countries and led those in the Netherlands; analysis and drafting of the research report for all seven countries. Report published by the leading project partner.2014, Leading consultant to a peer-review process on early childhood education and care practices preventing school dropout in five European countries. Coordinated the activities of the contributing participants; expert support to the process, co-developed the methodological framework, facilitated a peer-review seminar. Drafted an assessment paper, published in English and translated into Bulgarian.2014, Expert responsible for a short-term capacity-building assignment. Introduced an innovative approach to prevention of school drop-out to a leading NGO in Nepal. The innovation was introduced in the country within a year.

Part time job while still studying at the Law Faculty of Sofia University