Helena Pilsas Ahlin is Ambassador of Sweden to Bulgaria, based in Stockholm. Before taking to this position, she worked at the European Union Office in the Swedish Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Since 2004 she leads the "Baltic" group in the department.
Previously, she was Deputy Director of the Development Group in the Department of Central and Eastern Europe.
She has worked at the Swedish Embassy in Tallinn.

Bengt Johansson is Swedish Ambassador for CSR and leading a team of 3 CSR experts in the Swedish Ministry for Foreign Affairs. The ministry is in charge of negotiation international agreements within bodes such as UN, OECD and EU and overseeing the implementation in Sweden. This leads to frequent contacts with companies, NGOs, trade unions and other stakeholders.
Prior to that Mr Johansson was Swedish Consul-General in Shanghai 2008-2012 which has an active CSR program.
Before that he served as Director at the EU Secretariat at Prime Minister’s Office 2005-2008, National Expert at the Directorate General for Trade at the EU Commission 2002-2004 and Deputy Head of Department for Single Market and Trade Promotion 1999-2002. During this period Mr Johansson was Swedish representative at the OECD negotiations in the Export Credit Group on environment and anti-bribery which led to the first important OECD agreements in the CSR area.  

Ognian Trajanov is co-founder and board member of the National network of the UN Global Compact.
Mr. Trajanov is also founder and owner of the software company TechnoLogica and its CAD/CAM Center DiTra.
Graduated and post-graduated from the Sofia Technical University. Working experience as a scientific researcher in Interprogramma Institute in the area of Artificial Intelligence. Attended many technical and managerial trainings at IBM and at Oracle Corporation.
Honorary Consul of the Republic of Philippines in Bulgaria. 







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Mr. Yassen Guev has graduated with a degree in Hungarian Philology and Management from the Sofia’s University and has taken training programmes in the USA, France and Austria. He has a nine-year professional experience as a journalist in Bulgarian National Television (BNT), a reporter in Banker newspaper, business and finance editor in Mediapool, host of the Businesspool broadcast on Radio Channel New Europe. Then he headed the PR Department in Bulgarian Telecommunications Company (BTC), Euromarket Group and Mak Media. Prior to joining GLOBUL’s team, he held the position of PR and Corporate Affairs Director in CEZ-Bulgaria. 
Mr. Guev was appointed GLOBUL Corporate Affairs Director in February 2010, being responsible for the PR, Internal Communications and Corporate Responsibility departments in the company.

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Svetlin Nakov manages the biggest institution for alternative software development education in Bulgaria - Telerik’s Academy for Software Engineers. The Academy, offering free courses, is an initiative by the leading technology company Telerik.
Svetlin and his team provide to thousands of software engineers and experts free education, focused on modern-day practical skills and knowledge, essential for a successful career start within the software industry.
Under Svetlin’s management, in the 2012-2013 academic year the Academy offers 26 free courses in 13 different major areas, in which the record-breaking 1 000 full-time students have enrolled. Another 5 000 students use the free online training courses, which are accessible worldwide.
Svetlin Nakov has 15 years of experience as a software engineer, IT and software project manager, lecturer in IT, programming and software development, IT consultant and entrepreneur, and .NET, mobile and web applications developer.  

Kristiana Chakarova is Corporate Communications Manager in Coca-Cola HBC Bulgaria. Her core responsibilities within the company are developing and promoting corporate social responsibility practices, managing the corporate and brands reputation, media relations and key stakeholders’ networks.Before that, Kristiana was Corporate Affairs Manager in Nestle Bulgaria with core responsibilities in corporate social responsibilityand public affair, and Regulatory Affairs Manager handling government and EU relations.Kristiana is a member of the Appeal Committee at the National Council for Self Regulation.

Tanja Radocaj was appointed UNICEF Representative in Bulgaria in 2009. Although Bulgaria is a EU member country, UNICEF has a strong cooperation with the Government with a joint aim to address a wide unfinished agenda for children, from development of a comprehensive child care system to addressing poverty and social exclusion of certain population groups.
Before that, in the period 2002-2009, Ms. Radocaj was leading the UNICEF team in Croatia, where the office has successfully tested a new model of UNICEF engagement, so called "self-funded office". Support and funding have been mobilised from Croatian citizens, companies and civil society to improve situation of children in Croatia and abroad. She first joined UNICEF during Kosovo crisis, where she was recruited as a child protection and social services specialist and seconded to the provisional UNMIK Government to assure adequate focus on child protection issues.
Prior to this period, Tanja Radocaj has been engaged in assisting victims of war in Former Yugoslavia, through her work with state social services (1991-1993) and through International Rescue Committee (1993-1997). In the aftermath of the war this work continued through a local civil society organisation "MI" ("We"), which she founded, with a focus on post-war reconciliation, community building and development of social services.
Ms. Radocaj started her career as a counsellor in public social services, dealing with children and families at risk. She obtained MA in psychology at Zagreb University.
Tanja Radocaj is of Croatian nationality with home in Split, married, has two children and one grandchild.

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Vesselin Ilkov has graduated law in the South-Western University "Neofit Rilski" in Blagoevgrad in 1996. He has a rich professional experience, including longstanding service in various public institutions. The commencement of his carrier was in the Privatisation Agency – expert positions in Protocol, Method for Privatisation and Legal Departments. In 2000-2001 he worked as a legal expert and privatisation expert in the Ministry of Defence. He launched his long standing professional experience in Ministry of Labour and Social Policy as a senior expert at "European Integration and International Relations" Directorate in 2002. He was promoted to a Head of European Coordination Unit in 2006 in the same directorate which is his current position. He has been working in the field of European Union law for more than ten years now in the context of EU law (acquis communautaire) integration during the pre-accession period and EU coordination afterwards. He is chair of Working Group 13 "Social Policy and Employment" at the European Affairs Council at the Council of Ministers and has participated as a national representative in a numberof expert Working groups and Committees at the European Commission in the field of labour law and industrial relations, gender equality, antidiscrimination. He is a member of the High Level Group of EU Member States on Corporate Social Responsibility at the European Commission. He has being working in the field of CSR since 2007. He led the multistakeholder working group which drafted the Bulgarian Strategy on CSR in 2008-2009. He is secretary of the Consultative Body on CSR at the Minister of Labouor and Social Policy and is responsible for carrying out of the CSR policy at national scale. He has acquired a certificate for Leading Auditor in the field of CSR and Social Audit by TUV NORD inJuly 2012.