Assoc. Prof. Marina Stefanova, PhD has been member of the "Industrial Economics and Management" Department since the Autumn of 2020. She is a Director of the Master's programme "Responsible and Sustainable Governance" and manager of the ESG Lab and ESG Academy. She is the Chairman of the Sustainability Specialists Association.
Mrs. Stefanova is a member of the Advisory Council on Corporate Social Responsibility at the Ministry of Labor and Social Policy and the OECD National Contact Point at the Ministry of Innovation and Growth. She is the Executive Director of the "FEB" Foundation, whose main goals are related to supporting the development of the Faculty of Economics and Business Administration at Sofia University "St. Kliment Ohridski" and confirmation, dissemination of the idea of "sustainable development" and its enrichment.
She is a member of the Board of Directors of the FEBA Alumni Association and the Bulgarian Food Bank. And also, a Creative Director of the Visual Science Mobile Center Kaleidoscope and the Kauzi Foundation's CSR AdviceBox multimedia outreach program.
Positions in the Faculty of Economics and Business Administration:
- Vice-Dean "Sustainability, Empowerment, and Engagement"
- Director of the Master's program Responsible and Sustainable Governance
- Director of ESG Lab
- Director of ESG Academy
Other roles at Sofia University:
- Member of the Sofia University Sustainable Development Commission
- Member of the Management Board of the UN PRME CEE and Coordinator of the SU's membership at UN PRME
- Coordinator of the SU's membership at UN Global Compact и UN SDSN Black Sea
- Coordinator of the SU's membership at the National Diversity Chart
- Leading author and Project manager for the Sofia University sustainability report
- Member of the Management Board of the FEBA Alumni Association
- Executive director of the FEB Foundation and the social enterprise Visual Science Mobile Center Kaleidoscope
Lectures for Bachelor and Master students in:
- Responsible Governance and Development
- Systems and Standards for sustainability management
- Ethics in business
- Good corporate governance
- Integrated Reporting
- Sustainable development and CSR
- Strategy planning and policy making
Main research interests: corporate sustainability and responsibility, sustainable leadership, sustainable supply chain management, economy of shared values, ESG, social entrepreneurship
Membership in organizations:
- 2025 – Ambassador of the European Pact for Climate
- 2023 - Member of the OECD National Contact Point at the Ministry of Innovation and Growth
- 2022 - Member of the Advisory Board at SOF Connect SHC (Sofia Airport)
- 2021 – Member of the Green Centre to the Bulgarian Stock Exchange
- 2019 – Member of the Association of the Bulgarian Investor Relations Directors
- 2018 – Chairperson of the MB of the Sustainability Specialists Association
- 2017 – Member of the MB of the Bulgarian Food Bank
- 2016 – Member of the Advisory Council on CSR at the Ministry of Labour and Social Policy
Other projects and activities:
- 2024 – Project manager “IPCC 61 Session Volunteer Team”
- 2024 – Project manager „Evaluation of the attitudes toward sustainable transformation in Bulgaria“
- 2023 – Project manager „EthiCitizen“
- 2023 – Project manager “NetZero Campus”
- 2021 – Project manager „ESG Career Week”
- 2021 – Coordinator of the Academy for sustainable leadership “SustainAblities” in partnership with Kauzi foundation
- 2020 – Coordinator of the National Academy for business and child rights in partnership with UN Children’s Fund (UNICEF)
- 2013-2014 – Partner in the UN simulation model for the UN Global Compact, organized by SOFIMUN
- 2012-2014 – Manager of the traineeship program to the Global Compact Network Bulgaria
- 2011 – 2016 – Executive Director of the Global Compact Network Bulgaria, representative in CSR Europe
Еmail: mstefanova@feb.uni-sofia.bg
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