Qualification and courses:

Training at the College of Europe, Bruges, Belgium, 1998

Practical workshop at IV Directorate General for Competition of the European Commission, 1995

Training at the national competition authority of Germany (Bundeskartellamt), 1992

Professional experience:

Member of the Commission for Protection of Competition (CPC) with over 20 years of experience at the organization.

Additional activities:

Arbitrator at the International Commercial Arbitration Court – Sofia

Chairman of the Ethics Committee of the National Council for Self-Regulation

Consultant at Magazine “Commercial and Competition Law” of Publishing House “Trud i Pravo (Labour and Law)”

Publications:

„The new law on protection of competition”, Publishing House “Trud i Pravo (Labour and Law)”, ISBN: 978-954-608-162-9, 2009, co-author.

Violations of the prohibition on abuse of a dominant position in the field of natural monopolies (Article 21 of the Law on Protection of Competition) – Magazine “Commercial and Law of Obligations”, issue 4/ 2015.

Preliminary ruling in cases involving the application of antitrust rules – Magazine “Commercial and Law of Obligations”, issue, 6/ 2014.

Commercial communications to reduce prices and their impact on consumer demand – Magazine “Commercial and Competition Law”, issue 5/ 2011.

“Imposition of provisional measures in the field of unfair competition. Prohibiting and suspending the spread of advertising” – Magazine “Commercial and Competition Law”, issue 19/ 09.

“Freelance professions and the right of competition” – Magazine “Commercial and Competition Law”, issue 1/ 2007.

Monograph with subject: “Prohibited agreements, decisions and concerted practices in the Bulgarian competition law and harmonization with European competition rules” – published by the Institute for Economic Policy, year 2000.

„Definition of the geographic market within the control of concentrations in the Protection of Competition Act” – Magazine “Labour and Law”, issue 1/2000

“Criteria used in the analysis of dominant companies” – supplement to newspaper “Economic life”, issue 44/96

Professional experience and areas of activity:

Prohibited agreements and concerted practices

Abuse of monopoly and dominant position

Economic and legal due diligence for mergers and acquisitions of companies

Unfair competition

Public Procurement

Language proficiency: English, German, Russian, Bulgarian – Mother tongue