Krassen Stanchev teaches Public Choice, Macroeconomic Analysis and Public Sector economics at Sofia University. He is also a Board Chairman, founder and former (1993-2006) Executive Director of the Institute for Market Economics in Sofia and a former member and committee chairman of the Constitutional Assembly of Bulgaria (1990-1991), one of the most quoted Bulgarian observers. He was a principle drafter and leader of reforms from central planning to market economy in Bulgaria, “new” Europe, the Balkans and former USSR.