Louisa Slavkova is founding member and director of Sofia Platform, a democracy development organization based in Bulgaria. She was visiting Fellow at the Human Rights Institute in Columbia, NYC and programmes manager of the European Council on Foreign Relations. Louisa served as an adviser to the former Minister of Foreign Affairs Nickolay Mladenov (2010 – 2013). Prior to that, Louisa worked with the German Federal Agency for Civic Education. She is passionate about democracy, civic education and dealing with the communist past.