PhD in Economics. President of the KNSB – the largest nationally representative organization of employees and the largest non-governmental organization in Bulgaria. Member of the NCTU. He has extensive expertise and extensive professional experience in the field of economic and social policy at national and international level. Active and long-standing member of ESC and the EESC. Long-standing Chair of the ESC Standing Committee on Labour, Income, Living Standards and Industrial Relations.
The first Bulgarian elected to the governing body of the International Labour Organisation. In 2019, he was elected Vice President of the 108th anniversary session of the ILO. Chairman of the Human and Trade Union Rights Committee of the International Trade Union Confederation (ITUC). First vice-member of the General Council of the ITUC. Member of the EC of the European Trade Union Confederation. Member of the EC of the Pan-European Regional Council of the ITUC. Deputy member of the Governing Board of the European Labour Authority.