Anna-Marie Vilamovska, PhD

Anna-Marie Vilamovska, Ph.D. is Business Development Manager at HPE Bulgaria, operated by Selectium, where she leads the growth strategy for key product portfolios, including networking and big data solutions. 

Anna-Marie is part of the core team that structured and led the first national public private partnership of the Bulgarian IT Industry and the Ministry of Education - the 2017 – 2020 IT Talent Hub, under which in Sept. 2017 the new industry-designed “applied software developer” high school degree program launched in 23 schools nationally. Today this program is one of the most successful national education innovation programs.

Until 2024 she was a supervisory board member of Innovation Capital Bulgaria – a 21.1 mln. euro venture capital fund focusing on high-potential pre-seed and seed CEE companies. 

Between 2012 and 2017 Anna-Marie was Senior Advisor to Bulgaria’s President Rossen Plevneliev in the domains of innovation policy, healthcare policy and education policy.  In 2015 the Financial Times, Visegrad Fund, Google and ResPublica listed Anna-Marie as one of the NewEurope100 outstanding individuals leading world-class innovation from CEE. In 2016 she received the Polish Republic’s Commodore’s Crest state insignia for her contribution to creating Innovative Europe, becoming one of its youngest holders.

Between 2005 and 2010 Anna-Marie led applied innovation, health and education policy and financing projects for large corporate, government, international non-profit and multilateral clients at the RAND Corporation in Los Angeles and Brussels. From 2003 to 2005 she designed national pension system in Central and South Asia, the Middle East, and Central Europe for IBRD and IDA in Washington, D.C.

She continues to teach advanced M.A. level classes at AUBG as a guest lecturer.