A historian venturing into the world of business
I am a Harvard-trained historian now working as a management consultant. Since completing my PhD in 2022, I transitioned from academia’s “ivory tower” to working in a global consulting firm. Presently, I am interested in understanding the power of private capital to do good in the world by accelerating solutions to intractable social and environmental problems. On this page, I share what I am thinking and learning about.
I was born in Bulgaria and grew up during my country’s transition from a communist state-planned economy to democracy and free markets. My front-row seat to the elusive “end of history” gave me an early understanding of how geopolitics and finance shape the boundaries of our worlds.1 At King's College London, the University of Cambridge, and Harvard University, I spent a decade studying intellectual history, exploring ideas about how societies and economies ought to be governed, and the impact of these ideas on human lives.
At Harvard, I was trained as a historian of Modern Europe, and my doctoral research investigated the transnational history of anarcho-syndicalism and antifascism in Germany between 1918-1951. I have found that history and business are more similar than most people think: both require you to make sense of ambiguous information and not be paralyzed by complexity.
Historians love to dissect facts and tell stories about what they learned, and that’s what I plan to do on this page. Here you will find my notes on current events, books, articles, and podcasts I find interesting and important.
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Disclaimer:
The views on this page express solely my personal opinions and not those of my employer or any academic institutions I have been affiliated with. All writing that appears here was created in the old-fashioned way: by a human. Wherever relevant, I will explicitly disclose the use of generative AI tools I leverage for purposes other than proofreading.
In 1992, the political scientist Francis Fukuyama famously argued that the demise of the Soviet Union and the end of the Cold War marked the end of humanity’s ideological evolution, anticipating that Western liberal democracy would become “the final form of human government." He has since been proven wrong. See Francis Fukuyama, The End of History and the Last Man (New York : Free Press, 1992).
