Dr. Alexander Mirtchev is the founder and president of Krull Corp., USA, a global strategic solutions provider, with a focus on global economic security, new economic trends and emerging policy challenges.

Dr. Mirtchev is President of the Royal United Services Institute for Defence and Security Studies (RUSI) International, Washington DC, and Vice-President of RUSI, London, est. 1831. He is also an American Founding Council Member of the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars’ Kissinger Institute on China and the United States, and a Board Director of the Atlantic Council of the United States.

Dr. Mirtchev serves and has served as chairman and director of multi-billion dollar international industrial enterprises, chairman of a joint venture with a high-end risk-mitigation services NASDAQ-listed corporation, independent director of a sovereign wealth fund, senior governmental macroeconomic advisor, WTO-accession advisor, and as director with a top-rated Washington, D.C. law firm.  He has had an active public office career, worked on the resolution of critical geopolitical issues and has participated in laying the foundation for the market democracy in Bulgaria and its accession to NATO and the EU.

Dr. Mirtchev has had a distinguished academic career and served in different capacities, including as Senior Fellow of the Institute of Europe, Russian Academy of Sciences; Senior Fellow of the National Public Center of the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences; and as Adjunct Professor at St. Kliment Ohridski University. He is a Doctor Emeritus of the University of Foreign Trade and Finance, Ukraine and a member of the Russian Academy of Natural Sciences.

Dr. Mirtchev obtained an LL.M. degree in International and Comparative Law at the National Law Center of the George Washington University, Washington, D.C., and has a Ph.D. from St. Kliment Ohridski University. He studied economics and finance at the London School of Economics and Political Science, Boston University, and Harvard Business School.

He has served as editor and publisher of academic and professional journals, has appeared as analyst on major international media and is the author of four monographs and numerous articles.

Mirtchev enjoys classical philosophy, opera and painting.