Albena Vutsova

Albena Vutsova, a Professor at the Faculty of Economics, Sofia University "Kliment Ohridski" since 2015, specializes in assessing the effectiveness of educational, scientific, and innovative activities, alongside their monitoring and analysis. She has contributed to over 10 international projects in the past decade and oversees the training of 14 doctoral students, with 11 having successfully defended their theses. Her expertise extends to managing national and European programs and projects in education and science, accumulated over 20 years. Additionally, she serves as a scientific supervisor and has experience working with national and international state institutions, including the Ministry of Education and Science (MES) and the European Commission (EC).

• Institution: Sofia University "Kliment Ohridski", Bulgaria
• Faculty: Faculty of Economics
• Expertise: EU candidate country policies, educational and scientific policy development

Prof. Vutsova has held key expert roles in international projects related to EU candidate countries (Ukraine, Serbia, Kosovo, Bosnia and Herzegovina), participated in working groups with DG Research in Brussels, and is a member of the Board of Governors of the European Commission's Joint Research Centre (JRC). Her work includes numerous publications in indexed scientific journals, and she engages actively in scientific seminars, projects like SINTACT and Twin2Green, and the Faculty’s ESG Lab initiative.