Ivanov, Iskren

Iskren Ivanov is senior lecturer in Sofia University "St. Kliment Ohridski" and visiting scholar in the University of Texas at Austin. Ivanov holds a PhD in Political Science and International Relations from Sofia University. From 2018–2019 he was visiting fellow in the Center of Peace and Conflict Studies at the University of Granada and Erasmus scholar in the European School of Political and Social Sciences at the Catholic University of Lille. In 2019 Iskren continued his research career in the United States where he was visiting fellow at the University of Delaware, U.S. Military Academy at West Point, Columbia University, Princeton and Yale. Later, in 2020 he won a Fulbright Visiting Scholar Fellowship in the University of Texas at Austin. Ivanov is also a fellow of the U.S. Department of State, the New Sorbonne University and the Eurasian National University of Kazakhstan. He served as chair of the Olmsted Scholar Program at Sofia University, principal investigator in the Science for Peace and Security Program of NATO, and academic coordinator of the Bulgarian – Japanese program for cultural exchange.