Svetlana Staneva combines academic work in quality management with practice as an expert, auditor and lecturer in tourism and the food sector.
Her career has developed in quality management and in education, as a lecturer at leading Bulgarian universities — New Bulgarian University, Varna Free University, the University of Forestry, the University of Food Technologies and others.
As a quality manager and head of hotels, she has taken an active part in creating, organising and developing corporate standards, ISO-aligned quality management systems and personnel appraisal. She develops and implements new policies in quality management and strategic management.
Her portfolio includes expert assessments and audits in the tourism business, trade and the food industry, and she works on the standardisation and quality grading of the tourism product through new approaches to re-engineering and innovation.
Her professional interests include tourism management grounded in loyalty, fairness and ethics, as well as food control, standardisation and certification, hospitality and restaurants, marketing, facility management and eco-management.