Vesselin Popovski

Dr. Vesselin Popovski is currenlty an Academic Programme Officer at UN University in Tokyo, Japan. He spent 2002 to 2004 in Moscow, Russia, working on the EU TACIS project "Legal Protection of Individual Rights". From 1999 to 2002 he was Lecturer at the School of Historical, Political and Sociological Studies at the University of Exeter, UK. He taught for several years the core modules for the MA in International Peace and Security, School of Law, King's College, London, where he pursued his PhD. He was also teaching courses in Westminster Universlity and Huron University. Prior to become an academic, Dr. Popovski pursued fast-track diplomatic career. From 1988 to 1991 he was UN Desk Officer in the Bulgarian Foreign Ministry, and from 1991 to 1995 worked at the Bulgaria's Embassy in London. Dr. Popovski's professional and academic interests include United Nations and international security, human rights, international humanitarian law, post-communist transition in Russia and Eastern Europe.