Date of birth: 25.12.1963

Education:
Doctor of National Security, “G. S. Rakovski” National Defense College, Sofia, Bulgaria
Bulgarian philology and Russian philology, Veliko Tarnovo University, Bulgaria

Professional experience:

• Since 2024 – member of the Investigative Journalism Network of the European Broadcasting Union EBU
• Since 2021 – Jury member of the European Parliament’s Daphne Galizia International Media Festival for Investigative Journalism in Strasbourg
• Since 2021 – Jury member of the international media festival PRIX EUROPA in Berlin
• Since 2019 – Bulgarian National Television, author and host of the program for investigative journalism “The traces remain”
• 2016 – 2017 – “G. S. Rakovski” National Defense College, Sofia, Bulgaria, Office of the Commandant of “G. S. Rakovski” National Defense College, Chief Expert Public Relations and International Activity
• 2015 – Ph.D. degree in National Security, “G. S. Rakovski” National Defence College
• 2011 – 2014 – Supreme Administrative Court of Bulgaria, Head of the Cabinet of the President of Supreme Administrative Court of Bulgaria
• 2002 – 2011 – Darik Radio, author and host of the program for investigative journalism “Affair”, host of the weekly political program “The Week”
• 2000 – 2002 – Standard newspaper, journalist
• 1996 – 2000 – Balkan Information Agency, journalist
• 1993 – 1996 – Standard newspaper, journalist
• 1992 – 1993 – Novinar newspaper, deputy chief secretary
• 1991 – 1992 – Marica newspaper, Plovdiv, deputy chief secretary

Authour of 3 books – “Affair” June 2007, “State security services and the vanished treasures” October 2009 and “That list – first defeat of the intelligence” – June 2010, as well as author of more than 100 journalist investigations and many articles in printed media.

Author of 3 documentaries on BNT – “In the Shadow of Democracy” (2020) about Bulgaria’s transition to democracy in the years 1990-94, about the fate of the tsarist policeman Nikola Geshev in two parts – “Geshev’s Cobweb” and “Geshev’s Mystery”, (2023) and about who and when started the Bulgarian hippie movement – “Julia: The Beginning” (2024)

Winner of 12 bulgarian and international awards and 10 nominations for awards for journalistic activity.