Antoaneta Vassileva


Antoaneta Vassileva is a Bulgarian economist and Professor of Global Economics and International Economic Relations at the International Economic Relations and Business Department at the University of National and World Economy. She was Dean of the International Economics and Politics Faculty of the UNWE from 2011 until 2014.

Biography

Education

Vassileva graduated from the Karl Marx Higher Institute of Economics in International Economic Relations with distinction in 1984. She became a Doctor of Economics in Bulgaria in 2000 and a Doctor of Business Administration in the USA in 2002.
She specialized in International Management and Marketing at the Barcelona Instituto de Estudios Superiores de la Empresa, the London City University Business School, and the Asia Pacific University in Beppu, Japan.

Academic career

Vassileva is a Professor at the Department of International Economic Relations and Business at the UNWE. She teaches International Business Operations, Regional Business Practices in International Business and International Marketing in Bachelors’ and master's degree programs for the International Economic Relations discipline in Bulgarian and English. She has lectured at Polish and Japanese universities. Vassileva delivers a course of lectures in the joint master's degree program by the UNWE and the Nottingham Trent University from the United Kingdom.
Between 2002 and 2006, Vassileva was the Director of the Center for International Economics, Politics and Law of the UNWE’s Postgraduate Studies Institute. She is one of the founders of the Center for Management Skills Development of the Postgraduate Studies Institute and delivers lectures as part of the Bulgarian-Japanese course in Global Management and Leadership.
Vassileva participates in a number of national and international research projects, manager training and knowledge and innovation transfer projects, such as the Bulgarian-Japanese Management Skills Development project, the Bulgarian-Italian project on Partnership between Universities and Business and Economics and Management Training, and the Belgian-Bulgarian project on European Entrepreneurship Commitment.
Vassileva has led research projects on the International Competitiveness of Bulgarian Export Oriented Industries, and EU Budget Reform and Future EU Policy Financing.
Vassileva has published many papers at home and internationally. She has a wealth of practical experience in international commerce and investment and acts as consultant to Bulgarian companies on issues such as international cooperation, marketing, or Public-Private Partnerships. She is member of the Editorial Board of the International Relations Journal in Bulgaria, the Vision Journal in Macedonia, and China-USA Business Review Journal in the USA. She is a member of the European International Business Academy, the Union of Economists in Bulgaria, and the founder of the Club of Commerce and International Business Specialists.

Personal life

Vassileva is the wife of Corporate Commercial Bank AD’s majority shareholder Mr. Tzvetan Vassilev. She is the mother of legal scholar and social activist Radosveta Vassileva.

Publications

Monographs and Textbooks