Teodor Kalpakchiev
is founder of the think-tank. He completed a B.A. in European Studies: Economics and Law, Jean Monnet Chair of European Integration, Sofia, a M.A in Public Policy: International Affairs, Cooperation and Development, Willy Brandt School, Erfurt and Adv. M.A. in European Interdisciplinary Studies: The EU as a Global Actor, College of Europe in Natolin, Warsaw. He earned his PhD with a focus on Institutional Innovations for Phosphorus Circularity at the School of Earth and Environment of the University of Leeds.
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Esmaeel Mohammadi
is an associate fellow to the think-tank. He is a machine learning specialist and data sicentist, focusing on distributed energy grids. He completed his PhD at Veolia / Krüger as industrial candidate focusing on adaptive learning controllers for resource recovery from wastewater. He earned his masters’s degree in Engineering at the Sharif University of Technology, Iran and his Bachelor’s in Engineering at the Tabriz University of Technology,
Iran.
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Vsevolod Samokhvalov
is an adviser to the think-tank. He earned his PhD from Cambridge University, UK. He holds a B.A. from Odessa University, M.A. from University of Athens He has been a BBC correspondent, researcher at the EU Insitute for Security Studies, scientific officer at ERC and taught at Universities of Liege, Maastricht and VU Brussels. He has published extensivelyon EU-Russia relations, EU’s Eastern Partnership and Eurasia.
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Esmat Elsayed
is an associate fellow to the think-tank and a PhD candidate at the Sapienza University in Rome, Italy. She holds a MA in EU Interdisciliplinary Studies from the College of Europe, an Erasmus Mundus Joint Masters in Euro-Mediterranean Migration and Intercultural Mediation, a Masters in Advanced International Studies and a Bachelors in Strategic Communication and Mass Media. She co-founded Young Arab Voices and the Young Mediterranean of the Anna Lindt Foundation, was a governance fellow to the EU-AU Summit organised by EEAS, an ambassador to the Paris Peace Forum and the 73rd UN GA Assembly and has facilitated/moderated more than 70 training courses.
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Yani Karavasilev
Yani Karavasilev is an associate fellow to the think-tank. He holds a PhD from Osaka University, Japan, M.A. from University College London, UK and B.A. from Jacobs University, Germany. He is teaching at various universities in Osaka and has previously worked in the EU Parliament and UNDP. He is an expert in macroeconomics, foreign direct investments, history and contemporary affairs in Japan.
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Oyewole Oginni
is an associate fellow to the think-tank. He holds a BSc. Accounting, MSc. Forensic Science – Accounting & Criminal Investigation and MSc. in Governance & Regional Integration and is currently a Junior Researcher at Zentrum für Entwicklungsforschung of the Friedrich Wilhelm Universität Bonn. He was previously Peace and Security Fellow at the AU-EU Summit, International Election Observer in Kenya and Health Data Analyst in Nigeria.
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Madalin Blidaru
is an associate fellow to the think-tank. He holds a B.A. in International Relations and European Studies, a MA in Diplomacy and International Negotiations and an European Master in Labour Studies. He is currently a PhD student in the Doctoral School of the National University of Political Studies and Public Administration, Bucharest, Romania. His thesis examines the asymmetries in the interregional relations has developed with other regional cooperation and integration organisations.
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Nevena Peeva
is the graphic designer of the think-tank. She holds a Bachelor of Fine Arts from Georgia State University and a Master of Fine Arts from the University of Texas at Austin, where she worked as a teaching assistant. She has held corporate and UX design functions for BBC News, the job-hunting engine Indeed, US-based banks and curretly works for Amazon in Texas.
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Mario Zorro
is former fellow to the think-tank. He holds a B.A. in Political Science from Universidad de los Andes, Colombia and M.A. in Public Policy from the University of Erfurt, Germany. He is has worked at the Universidad de los Andes, Project for Democratic Union e.V., the Global PublicPolicy Watch and in political communication.
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