The Faculty of Economics and Business Administration (FEBA) was honored in two categories from the first edition of the Leaders of Influence Awards organized by b2b Media. The Dean Assoc. Prof. Atanas Georgiev won the Agent of Change prize, and the faculty was singled out in the Leading by Education category, where it came third.

The two awards were presented to the Dean of FEBA, Assoc. Prof. Atanas Georgiev, and to the Vice-Dean in charge of "Sustainability, Empowerment, and Engagement", Assoc. Prof. Marina Stefanova.

The Leaders of Influence Awards recognize influencers in nearly 20 categories. Postbank won the big prize Influencer of the Year in a competition with dozens of business and public organizations.

The first Leaders of Influence Awards, organized by b2b Media, challenged opinion leaders and inspirers in various fields of social and economic life in Bulgaria.

In the Business Woman of Influence category, the prizes went to Maya Stancheva, Member of the Board of Directors and Executive Director of Investbank, Maya Kalcheva, Manager of Netera Communications, Yana Papardova, and Desislava Ivanovich from Schwarz IT Bulgaria.

The award Businessman of Influence was shared by Svetlin Nakov, ideologue and co-founder of SoftUni, and Neven Dilkov, Founder and Manager of Netera.

The jury chose the AYA business center project by Park Lane Developments as the Organizational Leader of Influence. Telerik Academy took the award for Leading Organization.

Kaufland Bulgaria took first place in the Leading by Example and Leading by Innovation categories. The Leading by Education prize went to the American University in Bulgaria.

In three categories, first place was awarded to Postbank - in the Leadership Award, Green Influencer, and Strategy, Leadership and Success. The financial institution also won the grand prize in the competition.

The Influencer Campaign of the Year award went to Answear and Diversity Leader to Musala Soft. The Influential Agency of the Year award went to InterImage with the campaign - "The Energy to Make an Impact".

The strongest Influencer in the Community turned out to be Progress, and the title of Agent of Change went to Gergana Tenekejieva, Executive Director of ADDRESS, and Assoc. Prof. Atanas Georgiev, Dean of the Faculty of Economics and Business Administration at Sofia University.

Center Stars won the Rising Star of Influence award, and the Bulgarian Network of the UN Global Compact was honored as the Network of Influence.

The media prizes Leaders of Influence - Media Award were awarded to Milena Milotinova - presenter of the program "Brussels 1", Dilyana Kocheva, author of the National weekly for education "Az-buki", the morning block "Bulgaria in the Morning" on Bulgaria ON AIR TV, Victoria Simeonova, editor-in-chief of gospodari.com and Miroslav Dechev, a journalist at TV Videosat Veliko Tarnovo.