Dr. Blagovest Georgiev is an Associate Professor in Sociology at Sofia University “St. Kliment Ohridski”. He has been consulting the UNDP office in Bulgaria in the area of investment programmes, international development initiatives and sociological surveys as well as the World Bank. 

Between 1998 and 2002 Dr. Georgiev was a director of the Regional Initiatives Fund at the Bulgarian Ministry of Labour and Social Policy.