Svetla Toshkova has a PhD in economics, and is a professor at the UNWE. Born in Sofia, she has graduated the High Economics Institute in Sofia, and has specialized in the Leningrad Institute of Finance and Economics, the Economics Chamber in Vienna, the Institute of Management and Managerial Practice in Linz (Austria) and the Management and Transport Logisitcs Educational Centre - port Barcelona (Spain). She is the author of monographs in the field of economic theories and economic alternatives, theories on economic management and the human factor in management. She has run courses at the Bulgarian-French Management Centre MARCOM - Sofia, the Sofia Marketing Institute and the Bourgas Free University. From 1990 to 1994 she was vice-dean at the Foreign and Post Graduate Students' Dean's Office at the UNWE. From 1995 to 1997 she was deputy minister for economics and finances at the Ministry of Transport.