Team
Dr. Simeon Evstatiev - Founding Director
Prof. Dr. Dale. F. Eickelman - Special Advisor
Prof. Dr. Yordan Peev - Program Adviser
Assoc. Prof. Dr. Plamen Makariev - Program Coordinator
Dr. Galina Stefanova - Program Coordinator
Stefan Ilchevski - Program Assistant
Atanas Shinikov - Program Assisant
Georgi Popov - Accountant
Yavor Krastev - Technical Assistant
Milcho Zanev - Lawyer
Members
Deyan Katrachev - diplomat at the Bulgarian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Arabist and Islamicist, founding member of CISP;
Dr. Rossitsa Gradeva - historian, Research Fellow at the Institute of Balkan Studies, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences;
Dr. Danielle Celermajer - International ConsultantAssoc. Prof. Dr. Pavel Pavlovitch
– lecturer in Medieval Arabo-Islamic Civilization at the Department of
Arabic and Semitic Studies, St. Kliment Ohridski University of Sofia
Peter G. Petrov - Arabist and islamicist specialized European integrationGino Schallenbergh - lecturer at the University of Gent; former Assistant Director of the Dutch-Flemmish Institute in Cairo, Egypt;Dr. Dimiter Mihaylov
- diplomat at the Bulgarian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Arabist and
Islamicist, author of numerous publications and analyses on the Middle
East;Evgenia Atanssova - journalist, author and host of the talk show "Watch who…" at the Bulgarian National Television;Elena Kortel - journalist, author and host of the talk show "Ethnic Culture" at the Bulgarian National Radio;Suzan Tchakar - NGO activist, editor of Kaynak magazine for minority issues, expert in intercultural relations.