Curriculum Vitae

Krassen Stanchev

Personal:

  • Bulgarian citizenship, Born (26 Oct. 1955) and residing in Sofia, Bulgaria
  • Married, three children
  • Office address: Institute for Market Economics, 32, Patriarch Evtimij Blvrd., Sofia 1000, P.O.Box 803, phone/fax: ++3592/9812975; 9802472; e-mail: stanchev@ime.bg or ime@omega.bg

Occupation:

Institute for Market Economics - Sofia, Executive Director 1993 -

Staten Island Business Collage Advisory Board Member 1994 -

New Bulgarian University - Sofia Professor in Political Philosophy 1992 -

Member of the Board of Trustees 1991 - 1993

Friedrich Naumann Stiftung Sofia, Consultant 1992 - 1993

Open Society Fund - Sofia (Soros Bulgaria), Program Director; 1991 - 1992

1,000 dni Weekly Magazine, Policy Observer and Editor 1992

Bulgarian Parliament

Member on behalf of the Union of Democratic Forces 1990 - 1991

Chairman of the Environmental Committee, drafter of

Bulgarian Environment Protection Law adopted October,1991

Member of the Economic Committee and of the Constitutional

Committee, during the re-drafting sessions on the New

Bulgarian Constitution adopted July, 1991

Institute of Philosophy, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Research Scientist 1990

Economic University, Lecturer in Philosophy and History of Ideas 1984 - 1989

Academy of Social Sciences, Project coordinator 1980 - 1983

Education:

Postgraduate, Philosophy, Institute of Philosophy and Economic

University Ph. D. (Philosophy) 1988

thesis on Philosophical Language Peculiarities.

Undergraduate and Master Degree St. Petersburg University (Russia) 1975 - 1980

Master thesis in Philosophy of Science

Secondary School (Gymnasium), Sofia 1970 - 1973

Volunteer:

Borrowed Nature Association, Board Member 1992 -

Staten Island Business Collage, Advisory Board Member 1994 -

General Assembly of the Regional Environmental Center for central and Eastern

Europe, Member 1994 - 1999

Civil Society Development Foundation, Expert 1995-1996

President’s Council on Economic Policies 1996 -

Program Director, Bulgaria Economic Forum 1997 - 2000

Bulgarian Chamber of Commerce and Industry, Board Member 1999

Awards:

Central European (Euromoney Publications): Best Individual Analyst for Bulgaria 1996

Business, Consultant Activities, Clients

Shareholder, Tekons JSC (Nuclear plants control services, licensed by Westinghouse) 1997

Client: National Electric Company

Shareholder, Frontier 7, JSC (Balkan Regional Projects) 1996

Clients: Westinghouse, Shell International Gas, Entergy Power Group

Co-founder, IME Consult 1994

Clients: KPN (1999); Societe General (1999), Birks Sinkler (1998); Niederland’s Economic Institute (1997); World Bank (1996-); UNDP (1998-); Creditanstaldt Central European Quarterly (1997-); Salomon Brothers (1994-1997); CS First Boston (1996); Renaissance Capital Group (1996-1997); Goldman Sachs (1996); Donaldson, Lufkin & Jenrette (1997); Morgan Stanley (1995-1996); Deutche Morgan Grenfell (1995-1996); Daiwa Research Institute (1996); Trans National Research (1996-); Caxton Corporation (1995); Fidelity Investment and Research (1996-1997), etc.

Other

Founder of Emerging European Economies Network 1997

Founder of the Balkan Network of private think tanks 1995

Publications:

Last seven years more than hundred and fifty articles and interviews in the local and foreign press and media on issues related to the Bulgarian and Central-East European transition to market economy and democracy; some of the early articles are: Categories of Philosophy Methodologically Reconsidered (1982, Philosophska Misal), The Philosophical Knowledge (1983, Philosophska Misal), The Irony of Confronting Rationalities (1984, Types of Rationalities, ed. by S. Avramov and S. Gaitandjiev), Radio Languages and Propaganda (1986, Proceedings of the Philosophic Society Varna Conference), Public Attitudes Towards Large Industrial Entities: the Chernobil Case in Different Countries (1987, Challenges of the Scientific Era, ed. by I. Ganev), 1989-1990: The Winter of Discontent (A Phenomenological Approach) - 1990, Pluralism, ed. by Roumen Dimitrov;

a book on logical and historical meanings of philosophical concepts From Logic to History (Sofia University Press, 1990); editor of the Bulgarian translation of Gwartney and Straup, What Everyone Should Know About Economics and Prosperity (1993); Economic Populism in Bulgaria: An Optimistic Experience From a Survey, Politicheski Izsledvania, vo,.IV, No 2, 1995; Socialist Economic Law-making: Expected Impacts, a chapter in: The Beginning Of the Left Rule: The Day After Elections and Ninety Days Later (Capital, 1995); The Balkan Map in 2010: A Futuristic Attempt, Sotziologicheski Problemi, No 4, 1995; co-author, Access to Environmental Information in Europe (Kluwer Law International, 1996), Market Reforms on the Balkan s: Barriers and Challenges, Balkan Transitions, edited by Ivailo Dichev, Sofia, ACCESS, 1997; editor, Eric Hoffer, The True Believer (Bulgaria Edition), IME, 1998; Needs for Deregulation of Central European Tax Systems (co-author), Intitut Liberalnih Studii, Bratislava, 1998; co-author and editor, Empirical measurements of Corruption in Bulgaria: 1990-1998, chapter 8 in Corruption in Contemporary Bulgaria: An Analytical Review, Transparency International Bulgaria, 1998; Bulgarian Central Bank and the Policy Debate: 1997-1999, chapter in: Central Bank Management Under Currency Board, IME-OSF, OSF Publishing House, 1999; Balkans in 2010: Economic Scenarios (European Integration Institute, Bonn, 1999); co-author of Search for Long-Term Growth, IME/Freedom House, IME Newsletter, vol. 5, No 11-12, 1999; Creating Competitive Clusters, IME-OSF, OSF Publishing House, 2000.

Computers: Word for Windows, Excel, Internet, etc.

Languages: Full skills in English, Russian, working knowledge in German.