Yvanka B. Raynova, PhD, Professor of Philosophy, is Director of the Institute for Axiological Research in Vienna and Senior Research Fellow at the Institute for the Research of Society and Knowledge (merging the former Institute of Philosophy, the Institute of Sociology and the Knowledge Science Institute) of the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences.

Her main fileds of research, teaching and interest are phenomenology, hermeneutics, axiology (theories and applied research on values), philosophical and cultural anthropology, diversity managment, gender studies, intercultural communication, and translations studies.

She is author of numerous books and studies in different languages, inter alia From Husserl to Ricoeur. The Phenomenological Approcach to Human Being (1993), Jean-Paul Sartre, the Philosopher without God (1995), Lifeworlds and Values (in print). Her discussions with the eminent french philosopher Paul Ricoeur - Between the Said and the Unsaid. In Conversation with Paul Ricoeur - has been published 2009 by Peter Lang. Her new book on phenomenology and hermeneutics Être et être libre : Deux « passions » des philosophies phénoménologiques. Études d'herméneutique comparative appeared 2010 in the same publishing house and her main study on feminist philosophy - Feministische Philosophie in europäischem Kontext: Gender-Debatten zwischen "Ost" und "West" - has been just released by Böhlau Verlag.

She has translated several philosophical books from French into Bulgarian, including Jean-Paul Sartre's L'être et le néant and Paul Ricoeur's Le Conflit des interprétations, and diverse studies from French into German.