Conference Title: EU R&I policymaking: ERA in support of decarbonisation and circularity.

 

Dr. Evgeni Evgeniev joined recently the "Industrial Transformation" (E3) team at the Prosperity Directorate of European Commission’s DG Research and Innovation to work on industrial decarbonisation and circularity, the Research Fund for Coal and Steel and the European Research Area (ERA). Previously, he served for three and half years at another unit of the same directorate, supervising the EU Industrial R&D Investment Scoreboard - a long-standing EU flagship report, key deliverable of the Global Industrial Research & Innovation Analysis (GLORIA) project in cooperation with the Joint Research Centre (JRC). He also co-authored ERA industrial technology roadmaps, published by the European Commission in 2022-2024 and coordinated ERA Action 12 which facilitated cooperation with 20 Member States, several associated countries and stakeholders to support acceleration of R&I investments in key European industrial ecosystems.

In 2016-2018, Dr. Evgeniev advised the Bulgarian Minister for Education and Science and then he served between 2018-2021 as Research Counsellor under diplomatic assignment with the Permanent Representation of Republic of Bulgaria to the EU, based in Brussels. In this role, he negotiated key EU innovation and research legislation for the Multiannual Financial Framework 2021-2027.

Before his experience in government institutions, he worked for close to ten years as economist with the World Bank’s Europe and Central Asia region on research and innovation, business regulation and access to finance.

Dr. Evgeniev developed also an academic career. In 2012, he became a full-time Associate Professor in Finance and Economics and, later, served for three years as Vice-Rector of VUZF University, which is one of the best performing education institutions in Bulgaria in the field of economics and finance. In the past two decades, he taught courses for bachelor, master and PhD students in Budapest, Seoul and Sofia and was a university guest lecturer in Ferrara, Florence, Durham, Istanbul, Parma, and Vienna. He has published five books and has authored international journal publications and studies for the European Commission, OECD, World Bank, and UNIDO.