Vassil Girginov is Reader in Sport Management/Development in the School of Sport and Education at the University of Brunel, West London. He joined Brunel from the University of Windsor, Canada. Until 2005 he taught at the University of Luton, England and the National Sports Academy in Sofia, Bulgaria and collaborated with the Bulgarian Sports Union and the National Olympic Committee. His research interests and publications are in the field of the Olympic movement, sport development and comparative management and policy analysis, and Eastern European sport. Vassil's latest book is 'Management of Sports Development' (2008) by Elsevier.
I've been involved in sports development at local, national and international levels both as an academic and volunteer/professional.