Yasen Gyurov is Seconded National Expert at the European Observatory on Infringements of Intellectual Property Rights of the European Union Intellectual Property Office (EUIPO). Prior to this position he served as Attaché for Education, Training, Youth and Sport at the Permanent Representation of Bulgaria to the European Union. During the 2018 Bulgarian Presidency Yasen chaired the Council of the European Union’s Education Committee and co-chaired the Internal Market Working Party on the Proportionality Test for Regulated Professions Directive. He was part of the team that successfully finalised the negotiations with the European Parliament on this piece of legislation. Yasen has ten years’ experience in policy making, including as an associate to a Member of the European Parliament specialising in the policy domains related to the European Union’s Single Market, copyright, digitalisation, new technologies and skills. He has also gained considerable experience at the European Commission’s Communication Service, the United Nations and the Organisation for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE). In 2020 Yasen completed the Oxford Executive Leadership Programme at the Saïd Business School at the University of Oxford. He holds a Master’s degree in European studies from the Center for European Integration Studies (ZEI) of the Rheinischen-Friedrich-Wilhelms University Bonn, Germany.
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