Dr Milena Angelova has been serving as Secretary-General of the Bulgarian Industrial Capital Association since 2002. SGI Europe Vice-President 2011-2025. She’s been a Member of the European Economic and Social Committee since 2007. Member of the Bulgarian Economic and Social Committee since 2006, and its Vice-President for 2025. In June 2022, Dr Angelova was appointed Bulgarian SME Envoy. She has thirty years of successful track record in representing the interests of the business community at EU and national level regarding important topics such as sustainable development and CSR, SME promotion, innovation and knowledge transfer, skills, future of work, life sciences, etc. Associate professors on Marketing and Sustainable Development at the Economic Research Institute at Bulgarian Academy of Sciences.