Education and studies
- Harvard University, John F. Kennedy School of Government Executive Programme in Leadership and Economic Development (November – December 1999)
- NATO fellow, Programme for Central and Eastern Europe on democratic institutions focusing on the national and legal mechanism for the protection of minorities (September 1992 – December 1994)
- University of Maryland, School of Public Affairs, Washington
Ford Foundation fellow, Programme on the US foreign policy decision-making process (January – August 1989, USA) - Moscow State Institute of International Relations
MBA in international relations (1976) - English Secondary School, Sofia (1971)