
Atanas Tchobanov is co-founder of the Bulgarian investigative website Bivol.bg, exposing the State-Mafia nexus in Bulgaria.
Bivol publications triggered most of the major corruption scandals in Bulgaria in the last 6 years.
Tchobanov has contributed to many cross-border investigation cases concerning hidden assets in Bulgaria by foreign officials and abuse of EU money.
He holds a PhD in computational linguistics from Paris Nanterre University and works as a senior research engineer in CNRS. In his journalistic activity he is also interested in big data harvesting and exploring, forensic methods, and encryption techniques for protecting the communications and the journalistic sources.
Tchobanov is a co-recipient of the Serbian National Award for Investigative Reporting for 2016 and 2017. In 2016 he was elected member of the Board of the investigative reporting network OCCRP.