Pobeda Lukanova, PhD, defended her dissertation at the Institute of Economics of the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences. Since 2008 she has been teaching at the University of Veliko Tarnovo “St. Cyril and Methodius". In 2011 she was elected head of the Department of Organization and Methodology of Social Activities at the Faculty of Economics (VTU). In 1996-1997 she worked as Deputy Head of the Employment Agency. Participates in projects of international organizations, such as the European Commission, the United Nations Development Program and the World Bank, as well as the Ministry of Labor and Social Policy.