Emil Robert Cohen

CURRICULUM VITAE

 
PERSONAL DETAILS:
 
Family name: Cohen
First names: Emil Robert
Date of birth: 07/02/1951
Nationality: Bulgarian
Civil status: Bulgarian
 
Address:
Work:
Human Rights Project
23 Solunska Str.
1000 Sofia
Bulgaria
 
Home:
10 Lidice Str.
1113 Sofia, Bulgaria
 
Tel./fax:
Office: (+359 2) 981 50 66; 986 35 46;
Home: (+359 2) 971 9168 (only telephone)
E-mail: emilcohen@mbox.cit.bg or hrproject@mbox.cit.bg or hrp@netel.bg
 
EDUCATION:
Sofia State University - 1974
Degree obtained - MA degree in Philosophy and Sociology
 
LANGUAGE SKILLS:
 
Bulgarian - native language
Russian - speaking, writing and speaking fluently
English - speaking, reading and writing very well
 
RELEVANT PROFFESIONAL EXPERIENCE:
 
Current professional position: Executive Director of Human Rights Project
 
 Previous professional positions:
 
 1976 - 1992 - Institute for Youth Studies - Research Fellow
 1992 - 1994 - 'Continent' daily newspaper - Columnist
 1994 - 2002 - Tolerance Foundation - President
 2002 - Human Rights Project - Executive Director
 Since 1999 - Lecturer on Sociology of Religion in the Plovdiv State University
 
 OTHER RELEVANT KEY QUALIFICATIONS:
 
1999 - Six month course on Human Rights protection - Utica College of the Syracuse University - N.Y., USA
 
I have been taken part in more than 20 international conferences, seminars and workshops devoted on different sides of the protection of the human rights in France, Germany, Ireland, Greece, USA, Russia, Poland, Hungary etc.
 
I am member of the board of the Bulgarian Helsinki Committee and also I am current co-author of the annual reports on the State of Human Rights in Bulgaria since 1994