Marin Lessenski is Program Director of the European Policies Program of the Open Society Institute – Sofia. He holds an MA in Southeast European Studies from the Central European University - Budapest and an MA in History from the University of Sofia. Mr. Lessenski previously worked for the Institute for Regional and International Studies in Sofia, Bulgaria. He has been a Freedom House Visiting Fellow with the Hudson Institute's Center for European and Eurasian Studies and the Center of National Security Studies. He has also been a participant in the Transatlantic Young Leaders Program of the Aspen Institute - Berlin.
At OSI-Sofia he is also responsible for the Media Literacy Index, which assesses the resilience potential to ‘fake news’ and related phenomena in a selected number of European countries, using indicators for media freedom, education and trust in people. The index has been published since 2017 and can be found at www.osis.bg .