Gallup International Balkan EAD, established in 2015, is a leading national center for independent social and political research in Bulgaria.
Since 2025, it has been a member of two of the most authoritative global organizations of sociological and marketing agencies: ESOMAR and WAPOR.
Team:
Executive Director: Petko Petkov, Doctor of Sociology
Director of Political Analysis and Forecasting: Prof. Rosen Stoyanov, political scientist from Sofia University “St. Kliment Ohridski”
Director of Electoral Analysis and Forecasts: Prof. Mihail Konstantinov, mathematician
Editor-in-Chief of the agency’s analytical publication Bulgaria and the World: Events, Processes, Perspectives”: Associate Professor Tatyana Burudzhieva, Ph.D., political scientist (Sofia University “St. Kliment Ohridski”)
Members of the editorial board of “Bulgaria and the World: Events, Processes, Perspectives:
– Assoc. Prof. Ognian Minchev, Ph.D., Sofia University “St. Kliment Ohridski”
– Prof. Vladimir Chukov, Ph.D., Corresponding Member of the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences
Gallup International Balkan EAD is owned by Paxton Research AD and represented by Assoc. Prof. Dr. Borislav Tsekov, one of Bulgaria’s leading constitutionalists. Its shareholders include well-known Bulgarian non-governmental organizations.
We have the capacity to:
– conduct more than 100,000 interviews per year (face-to-face, via tablet, by phone, or online);
– conduct in-depth interviews;
– conduct qualitative research in a studio for group discussions (focus groups), which is equipped with recording and monitoring systems;
Data collection and computer data processing.
We also analyze data from large-scale studies by highly qualified specialists.
We provide high-quality, up-to-date expert commentary.
Quality Standards
Gallup International Balkan is full member of ESOMAR.
Through its code and guiding principles ESOMAR guarantees protection of respondents’ personal data in the polls regardless of methodology and technology of conducting the survey.
All ESOMAR members are obliged to respect The International Code for Practices in Marketing and Social Surveys.
The Code is created together by ESOMAR and the International Trade Chamber and is adopted by the biggest national professional organizations of research agencies across the globe.
Affiliations
Gallup International Balkan is full member of ESOMAR.
The Agency is member of World Association for Public Opinion (WAPOR).
Our experience
We are experts in measuring and analyzing electoral attitudes and behavior before and after elections as well as on the election day. It includes:
- Dynamics of electoral attitudes: monthly, quarterly, annually;
- Voters’ profile;
- Voters’ relation (reasons for supporting/ not supporting a given political actor);
- Electoral prognoses (in advance and on the election day);
We conduct various methods of surveys in voting behavior since the early 1990’s.
For more information, contact us.