NDI Staff: Biographies
Sevdalina Voynova
Sevdalina Voynova is NDI’s resident senior program manager based in Sofia, where she manages all Institute programs in Bulgaria as well as the Bulgarian component of NDI’s region-wide Roma initiative.
Before joining the Institute in 2005, Ms. Voynova worked as a community organizer for the Shalom Cultural Center in Sofia, as a researcher/program coordinator at Sofia University, and as a program assistant in the Sofia-based office of International Republican Institute. Ms. Voynova earned a Master’s degree in Philosophy and Oriental Studies from Oxford University, and a Master’s degree in Applied Linguistics from St. Kliment Ohridski University in Sofia. She speaks fluent Bulgarian, English, Hebrew and Russian.