A graduate of Political Science and Political Philosophy from the Universities of Sofia (BG) and York (UK), she has been working at the Council of Europe since 1994. Her carrier at the Council of Europe has taken her from youth policy and research, though the future of democracy in Europe, producing standards on e-governance and e-voting, party financing and internet literacy, the Private Office of the Secretary General where she was a policy advisor, and field programmes for urban policies for intercultural integration and media and diversity. Between 2013 and 2017 she was the coordinator of the World Forum for Democracy (www.world-forum-democracy.org) which gathers annually over 2000 decision-makers and practitioners to develop and mainstream the know-how of participatory and deliberative democracy. She is currently leading the Inclusion and Anti-discrimination programmes of the Council of Europe.
