Boyan Gerasimov
Bulgaria
European Politics and Society (MPhil), 2013
Merton College, Oxford
Funding: Louis Dreyfus
Boyan graduated with an MPhil in European Politics and Society from Oxford in 2013. He completed his BA in International Relations at the University of Pennsylvania (2010) where he received the Norman D. Palmer Award for the Best Thesis in International Relations for his research paper entitled ‘Conditionality and Legitimacy: How Did the European Commission Manage to Reassert Its Influence over Bulgaria after the 2007 Accession?’.
Prior to his MPhil, he worked as an analyst at First Manhattan Consulting Group, interned at the European Commission’s Directorate-General for External Relations and was a Senior Research Assistant at the Wharton Business School of the University of Pennsylvania. Boyan has also been a student fellow of the Penn Program on Democracy, Citizenship and Constitutionalism and has served as Chief of Staff of the Intercollegiate Team of the International Affairs Association at the University of Pennsylvania.
After Oxford Boyan joined McKinsey & Company’s London office where he focused on advising large NHS hospitals. He moved to their Canada office in 2017 to build up the public sector practice. In December 2019, he joined Canada’s federal social insurance agency (Employment and Social Development Canada) as an Executive Director working on a major transformation aimed at revamping the agency’s operations for delivering benefits, including employment insurance and pensions. Boyan was Director of Policy, Office of Minister of Public Service and Procurement for the Government of Canada, Quebec, and is now their Director of Policy, Office of the Minister of Innovation, Science and Industry.
