Dr Daniel Smilov is Programme Director of the Centre for Liberal Strategies in Sofia, Bulgaria. He is also visiting professor at the Central European University in Budapest, Hungary. Daniel obtained his first PhD in law in 1999 in comparative constitutional law from the Central European University of Budapest; and his second PhD from the University of Oxford in 2003, also in law. At the Centre for Liberal Strategies, he works on judicial reform, corruption, parliamentary oversight and populism. He has written extensively on populism in Eastern Europe.