Professor Didar Erdinc received her Ph.D. degree in Economics at the University of Southern California in 1997. Prior to joining AUBG as an assistant professor of economics in 1997, she worked in a number of universities in the US including the University of Southern California, Business School, Pepperdine University and California State University, Dominquez Hills. She also worked as an economic consultant at the Rand Corporation in Santa Monica, Los Angeles in 1991. She published several articles on Bulgaria and presented papers in conferences in the US. Currently, she teaches advanced macroeconomics, econometrics and economics of transition at the American University in Bulgaria.