Kamen Iliev is an expert with 40 years of experience in the field of space research and technology, national security and defense, technology transfer and business development. His professional career spans various expert and management positions in the Ministry of Defense, the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences (BAS) and the private sector. He currently holds the position of Director of the Center for National Security and Defence Research at the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences (CNSDR-BAS) and the Risk-Space-Transfer - Technology Transfer Office (RST-TTO) – CNSDR-BAS.
At the international level, he was a member of the Board of Directors of the EARSC association, uniting 140 leading European companies in the field of aerospace and defence technologies (2010–2020), and is currently a member of the Council of EURISY - Association of National Space Organizations and the European Space Agency (since 2022), and a national representative in the Programme Committee "Civil Security for Society" of the EU Research and Innovation Programme "Horizon Europe".