Ivan Krastev is Chair of Board of the Centre for Liberal Strategies in Sofia, Bulgaria. Since 2004 Mr. Krastev has been the executive director of the International Commission on the Balkans chaired by the former Italian Premier Minister Giuliano Amato. In 2006 Ivan Krastev was awarded membership in the Forum of Young Global Leaders, a partner organization of the World Economic Forum. Ivan Krastev is the Director of the Open Century Project of the Central European University and was the Research Director of the Project Political Consequences of Anti-Americanism, a three-year project carried out at the Center for Policy Studies 2004-2006.