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Rayna STAMBOLIYSKA

PARIS

En résumé

As a professional with multidisciplinary expertise, my goal is to enable strategic development of key players in both the private and public sector, architect and drive their (open) innovation and expand activities in EMEA.

I am a trained scientist and a strategy consultant. All throughout my professional journey, I have maintained a dedicated engagement to foreseeing and analysing key industry trends that impact all areas of activity. I have thus worked across several fields, the intersection(s) of which I consider to being my expertise, and a solid stepping stone for my career: data and technology, social and security challenges and opportunities in EMEA.

A result-oriented, ethical, and creative strategist, I bring a wide-ranging and innovative skills and experience:
- Shape a data-driven innovation strategy for governments, SMEs, media and non-profits. Because data is the new (s)oil.
- Business development strategy to drive private, public and non-profit entities. From open source to data governance, from niches in well-known to emerging markets, I leverage my unique methodology to help you take chances, not risks.
- Due diligence during evaluation based on ethical OSINT techniques. I use several tools to uncover hidden links and follow-up on weak signals.
- Manage multicultural and multinational projects. Talent is everything, so building the adequate capacities and retaining them is key.
- Advocacy and community building for open source, data, and science. I interface with public sector actors and guide them through innovative policy-making processes.
- Internationally mobile and having worked in conflict and post-conflict zones, I help to develop distributed workforce, prevent and manage crisis situations.

I am looking for opportunities where my analytical capacities, cross-disciplinary strategy thinking, and ethic will complement and enhance a team and produce a significant impact and build success for communities of practice and novel technologies.

Mes compétences :
Youth Participation
Risk assessment
Crisis Management
Policy analysis
Equality strategies
In-depth analysis of investment and security
Anti-corruption and integrity assessment
Compliance
OSINT
Media development
Local Government
Intellectual Property Law
Develop training
Data analysis
Business Development
Data visualisation
Editorialisation

Entreprises

  • Data Colada - Co-founder and Curator

    2016 - maintenant Data Colada is the first and only humanly curated resource around the data lifecycle and governance in French. It targets data professionals, journalists, public administrations and students. I co-founded the resource with Pierre Col, Director for Marketing at Antidot, to empower a rather shaky community of practice in France and the francophone world.
  • AESMA Group - Consultant Business Development MENA

    2015 - maintenant R&D and business diplomacy with a focus on the MENA region, compliance, risk mitigation and connections between MENA and Eastern Europe/CIS areas. Author of Iran Focus, a subscription-based monthly in-depth analysis on strategic business outlook, compliance and security in Iran.
  • World Bank - Consultant

    Washington 2014 - maintenant Junior consultant on Open Data. Assessing open data readiness and finding starting points for creating impact with Open Data with a focus on demand side (civil society, business). Work(ed) on projects in Kosovo, Bulgaria, Kyrgyzstan, among others.
  • Independent - Freelance trainer

    2014 - 2015 Data (open, big, smart): public policies, impact assessment, visualisation, strategy, data as a business asset. Certified Open Data Institute (ODI.org) trainer. Specialisation in open science.
  • RS Strategy - Founder & CEO

    2013 - maintenant ICT for development and education, media strategy, governance (open data, transparency, etc.) advisory, digital communication and content. Assisting public administrations, international organisations and NGOs, businesses in adopting open innovation and disruptive approaches to service provision.

    Focus on economy and development in compliance, risk assessment, and technology for conflict and post-conflict: investigation, sourcing, verifying, disseminating information on rapidly evolving situations. Among the projects:
    - hate speech and infowars tracking during the #EuroMaidan events in Ukraine, relief effort in the Balkan floods in 2014, countering hate speech in South Sudan.
    - training of practitioners and students on using technology for crisis management and
    communication

    An example of past projects: Compose and analyse needs assessment for local government and NGOs in different Iraq provinces with respect to technology for transparency projects; elaborate training curricula, identify relevant technology trainers and provide training on-site.
  • Paris 5, Centre de recherche interdisciplinaires - Project officer & Research Fellow

    2013 - 2014 My position is multi-faceted, at the interface between public affairs, scientific development and programme curation:
    - chief organiser of the NightScience event (www.nightscience.org): NightScience is a unique gathering where innovators, thought leaders, scientists and makers meet and exchange;
    - conception, organisation, management and training for the project "Savanturiers" (a first-of-the-kind joint venture with Paris City Hall): the project aims to bring scientific research to primary schools. "Savanturiers" spans 20 primary schools in Paris and ensures weekly scientific development projects for pupils, ranging from space exploration to biomaterial design;
    - Citizen Cyberlab SynBio content manager, platform prototype conception and community organization (FP7 funded).
  • FREELANCER - CONSULTANT - Media Specialist and Strategist

    2010 - 2014 I have a passion for innovation in media and a hawk eye for related needs in specialised markets and EMEA. My articles have appeared on Al-Jazeera English, OpenDemocracy, France24, The Atlantic,...
    I also bootstrapped the Bulgarian Global Voices and served as its managing editor for 2 years. Besides overseeing the editorial process and the communication strategy, I created a community and ensured it thrives and grows in capability.
    As a trained scientist, I have also focused on emerging trends in scientific research and innovation. I co-founded and served as a managing editor at Bioinfo-fr.net, the first and only French-language resource for bioinformatics. I handled community bootstrapping and growth, content evolution. During my time there, I successfully concluded partnerships with key actors.
    As a supporter and user of free and open source software, I have been involved with community management and content curation at the biggest francophone online resource, LinuxFr.org.

Formations

  • Ludwig Maximilians Universität (LMU) (München (Munich))

    München (Munich) 2009 - 2012 Doctor of Philosophy

    My PhD in evolution and bioinformatics contributes a better understanding of evolutionary dynamics of sex-biased genes and host-parasite interactions affecting behaviour in D. melanogaster & the longitudinal response to osmotic stress in E. coli:
    * Wetbench : biochemistry, P3 high-security level lab, transcriptomics
    * High-level analyses (SOM, clustering); Perl, R for big data & data visualisati

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