Board

Gergana Jouleva is the initiator, one of the founders, and Executive Director of the Access to Information Programme (AIP) in the period 1996-2023. Gergana Jouleva has been professionally involved in the access to information area since 1995. She has managed more than 50 projects related to access to information advocacy and raising awareness campaigns, monitoring, and trainings. She is an author of a number of publications focusing on the freedom of information. She was a member of the Steering Committee of the International Freedom of Information Advocates Network(2002 - 2014), member of the editorial board of FreedomInfo.org, one of the founders and a member of the International Advisory Board of Access-Info Europe (2005 - 2016) and a member of the Advisory Board of Privacy International. She has international lecturing experience on access to information issues.

Alexander Kashumov studied Law and Philosophy at the Sofia University "St. Kliment Ohridski". He has been working in the freedom of information area since 1997. Alexander Kashumov was recognized as an "Attorney of the Year" for 2008 by the Legal World magazine. In 2014, he was elected member of the Steering Committee of the International Freedom of Information Advocates Network.

Director of "News and Current Affairs" at bTV from 2000 to 2014. She graduated in Journalism from Sofia University "St. Kliment Ohridski." She has specialized in television journalism in the United States and is a member of the Radio Television Digital News Association (RTDNA). She has worked as a news anchor, reporter, editor, deputy director, and news director at Nova TV, as well as a reporter and editor at the Bulgarian National Radio (BNR). In early 2015, she joined the team of "Gospodari na Efira" (Lords of the Air) on Nova TV, where she consults on the investigations conducted by the popular show. She is also the author of several documentary television films.

Mariana Milosheva-Krushe, by education historian. Civil society activist and expert with specialization in strategy development, evaluation, fundraising and social inclusion. Currently, manager of CREDA consulting, specialized in assisting effectiveness of NGOs and international programs by assessments, organizational development and strategy advisе.

Neven Dilkov is Managing Director of Neterra Ltd. and since 2010 he is Chairman of the Board of Society for Electronic Communications. Neven has studied in Qinhua University, China, and is a summa cum Laude graduate of West Virginia Wesleyan College in Computer Science, USA. Before Neterra, he has worked as a consultant for Strategic Technology Resources in Chicago, USA. In 1997 Neven founded Neterra. Currently the company ranks in the top 3 Bulgarian telecoms servicing Central and Eastern Europe.

Pavlina Petrova-Tunckollu is one of the founders and the current Executive Director of Public Policies Watchdog Forum. She is also a co-founder of Access to Information Programme (AIP), Institute for Progressive Education (IPE), Cluster for Innovative Bio and Eco Technologies, and Friends of the Mountain Association. Between 1996 and 2003 she held the position of Administrative Director at the Institute for Market Economics in Sofia. From 2004 until 2008 she was Executive Director of the Economic Policy Research Institute in Skopje, Macedonia of which she was an initiator and co-founder. She has many years of experience in research activities, project elaboration and management as well as executive management of NGOs in Bulgaria and other countries in the region.

Petko Georgiev is a journalist and one of the founders of the iconic radio program 12+3. In 1991–1992, he was the host of the political review show Sunday 150 on the Bulgarian National Radio, and later the host of the current affairs program Beyond the Headline on Bulgarian National Television. He is a co-founder and the first director of Radio Vitosha, as well as an author and host at the Bulgarian bureau of Radio Free Europe. Currently, he is the director of the Center for Radio and Television Training “ProMedia” and works as a news development and media management consultant with dozens of organizations in Bulgaria, Western, Central, and Eastern Europe, the Western Balkans, the Middle East, Central Asia, and North Africa.

Yordanka Gancheva is one of the founders of Access to Information Programme and has long experience in research work, project management, NGO financial and executive management in Bulgaria and other countries in the region. Yordanka Gancheva started her work in the NGO sector in 1994 and until 2003 has occupied the following positions in the Institute for Market Economics: office and financial manager, financial director, senior researcher and analyst. She is an initiator and co-founder of the Economic Policy Research Institute in Skopje, Macedonia whose research activities she managed till October 2008.