Before joining ECAS, Desislava Ivanova has worked in the UN Agency for Refugees (Representation for EU Affairs) and in the Permanent Representation of Bulgaria to the EU in Brussels, Belgium.
She has experience in legal research and analysis, inter-institutional negotiations, strategic advocacy, building lasting relationships with stakeholders at the EU and the national level, planning and roll out of communication campaigns, and multi-stakeholder coordination in an operational context.
Desislava holds a Master’s Degree in Law from Sofia University (with 4 semesters in Belgium and USA), and a European Master’s Degree in Human Rights and Democratisation from the European Inter-University Centre for Human Rights and Democratisation (EIUC) and Ca’ Foscary University – Venice, Italy.