Key officers
KEY OFFICERS
Rumen ALEXANDROV
Ambassador, Permanant Représentative
Ivanka TASHEVA
Counsellor
Deputy Permanent Representative of the Republic of Bulgaria to the EU, COREPER I
Asya TSVETANOVA
Counsellor
Representative of the Republic of Bulgaria to the Political and Security Committee (PSC)
Viara Mileva
Secretary
Coordination COREPER-II
Assia TRAYCHEVA
Counsellor
ANTICI diplomat, COREPER-II Coordination, Institutional and horizontal issues, European Council
Ognyan KARASTAMATOV
Second Secretary
Deputy ANTICI diplomat, COREPER-II Coordination, Institutional and horizontal issues, European Council
Stefania GRADINAROVA
Assistant
COREPER-II Coordination
Coordination COREPER-I
Victoria CHERNOOKOVA
First Secretary, MERTENS diplomat, COREPER-I Coordination
Dorita ZLATEVA
Assistant
COREPER-I Coordination
Coordination COREPER-II/COREPER I/PSC
Adelina Tomova
Second Secretary
Coordination COREPER-II, COREPER-I and PSC, Staff Regulations
Press and Information
Dimitar YAPRAKOV
Counsellor
Media and Public Relations
European Parliament
Mila PETROVICH
Counselor
European Parliament
Legal and Institutional Affairs
Anna POPOVA
Counsellor
Judicial and Institutional Issues, Implementation of EU Laws, Breaches of EU law, Rule of Law, Translation Quality
Georgi MINKOV
Third Secretary
International Public Law, Court of Justice of the EU, Maritime Law, Countering Hybrid Threats
Anita STALEVA
First secretary
Enlargement, Consultation and Verification Mechanism for Bulgaria and Romania, EU Facility for Refugees in Turkey
Antoaneta DIMITROVA
First secretary
Negotiations for the withdrawal of the United Kingdom from the EU (Brexit)
Protocol, Administrative Affairs and Accounting
Metodi GERASIMOV
Attaché
Head of Protocol
Reneta ZDRAVKOVA
Head of Financial Department, Administrative and Financial Affairs
Dimitrinka DIMOVA
Administrator
Accommodation, Accreditation, Translator
Dorian TODOROV
Administrator
Accreditation, Accommodation
Common Foreign and Security Policy/Development Cooperation/COPS Coordination
Kristina YOTOVA
Counsellor
NICOLAIDIS diplomat, PSC Coordination
Detelina IVANOVA
Assistant
PSC Coordination
Georgi GEORGIEV
Counsellor
Working Party Africa, Working Party Transatlantic Relations
Stillian MINKOFF
First Secretary
Working Party Asia and Oceania, Working Party Middle East and Persian Gulf, ASEM, ASEAN
Kalina CHOLAKOVA
Third Secretary
Eastern Europe and Central Asia, Eastern Partnership, OSCE, The Black Sea Economic Cooperation (BSEC), Black Sea Synergy
Elena KIROVA
Firts Secretary
Committee for Civilian Aspects of Crisis Management (CIVCOM), EU Maritime Security Strategy
Tsvetomira GEORGIEVA
Second Secretary
Mashreq and Maghreb, Middle East Peace Process, Union for the Mediterranean
Yovo PANCHEV
Third Secretary
Latin America, Middle East – Gulf countries
Youlian ATANASSOV
First secretary
Foreign Relations Counsellors (RELEX), Sanctions, Judicial and Institutional Issues
Veselin NIKOLAEV
Minister Plenipotentiary
Western Balkans, Enlargement, Council for Regional Cooperation
Yana MIHAYLOVA-PEYCHEVA
Third Secretary
Cooperation for Development, 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, Humanitarian Aid and Food assistance, The Neighbourhood, Development and International Cooperation Instrument (NDICI), UN
Yanitsa STOEVA
Third Secretary
Human Rights, European Endowment for Democracy, Council of Europe, UN, Non-proliferation and Arms Control
Boriana KITANOVA
Second Secretary
Terrorism – External Aspects
Vice Admiral Mitko PETEV
Military Representative to NATO and EU, EU Military Committee (EUMC)
Colonel Tsvetomir NESHEVSKI
Deputy Military Representative to the EU, EU Military Committee (EUMC), General coordination and organization of the military aspects of the CSDP
Counsellor Blagovest IVANOV
Politico-Military Group (PMG), General coordination and organization of the politico-military aspects of the CSDP
Lieutenant Colonel Milen GEGOV
EU Military Committee (EUMC), EU military missions and operations, Military concepts and doctrines
Lieutenant Colonel Atanas PETROV
EU Military Committee (EUMC), EU military operations, Military training, Rapid response forces, EU Battlegroups
Stefan NEYCHEV
First Secretary
Politico-Military Group (PMG), , European Defence Agency (EDA), Permanent Structured Cooperation (PESCO), European Defence Industrial Development Programme (EDIDP), European Defence Fund (EDF), European Security and Defence College (ESDC)
Orlin GERGOV
First Secretary
Politico-Military Group (PMG), European Defence Agency (EDA), EU Satellite Center (SatCen), EU-NATO cooperation, Countering Hybrid threats - defence aspects
Trade Policy
Vladimir VELKOV
Counselor, Head of sector Trade
Trade Policy Committee, EFTA, Dual-Use Goods, Relations with the EFTA States
Kiril YURUKOV
First Secretary
TPC Services and Investments, TPC STIS, Committee on Investment Agreements, Services and Investment, Export Credits, World Trade Organization, Bilateral and Regional Trade Issues
Ivan RAYCHEV
Counsellor
Africa, Caribbean and Pacific, Trade and Development
Financial, Economic, Monetary Policy and Cohesion Policy
Iani IVANOV
Counsellor, Head of sector Economic and Financial Affairs
ECOFIN Coordination, Economic and Monetary Union (EMU), International Monetary Fund (IMF), European Investment Bank (EIB), Multiannual Financial Framework, Coordination of State Aid issues
Polia FILIPOVA
Counsellor
Financial services, Banks, Measures against money laundering and terrorist financing
Pavel MANCHENKO
Counsellor
Customs matters, Customs Union
Todor VALCHEV
First Secretary
Financial services, Securities, Financial Instruments and Markets, Capital Markets Union, Insurance and Pension Insurance
Daniela VATRACHKI
Second Secretary
EU Budget, Multiannual Financial Framework, Own Resources, European Court of Auditors
Tatyana KOLEVA
First Secretary
Taxation, VAT and excise duties, Company Law
Kristina KRASTEVA
Counsellor
Macro regional strategies, Structural measures, Outermost regions, Territorial cooperation, Danube Strategy, Regional Development, Committee of the Regions
Irena NIKOLOVA
Counsellor
Structural measures, Legislation in the field of Cohesion policy, European territorial cooperation, European Structural and Investment Funds, European Social Fund, European Court of Auditors
Justice and Home Affairs
Petar RASHKOV
Minister Plenipotentiary, Head of sector Justice
Police and judicial cooperation in criminal matters
Georgi RUPCHEV
Minister Plenipotentiary
Criminal Law, European Judicial Network in criminal matters, Judicial reform, Rule of law
Bilyana BELYAKOVA
Counsellor
Civil law, e-law, Data protection, Civil and Commercial matters, Rule of law, Judicial reform
Irina KUZMANOVA
Second Secretary
Civil and criminal matters, Company law, Civil and commercial matters
Velizar ZHULEV
Second secretary
Drugs, Fight against fraud, Asylum and Migration, Readmission committees
Dimana DOYNOVA
Second Secretary
Cooperation in the field of Internal Security, Police cooperation, Terrorism, Exchange of information and Data protection, Rule of law, Fight against organized crime
Iva ZAHARIEVA
First secretary. Schengen and asylum
Ivan DIMOV
Third secretary. Schengen and asylum
Georgi PETROV (accredited to the Delegation of the Republic of Bulgaria to NATO)
Coordination on counter-terrorism issues
Stefan DELCHEV (accredited to the Delegation of the Republic of Bulgaria to NATO)
Second Secretary
Civil Defence and Crisis Management
Birsen KARABADZHAKOVA
Counsellor
Visa and Consular issues
Stanislav MARKOV
Counsellor
Information Security Officer
Alexey MARINOV
First Secretary
Iliyana ATANASOVA
Counselor
Competitiveness and Growth - better regulation, Technical Harmonisation, Space policy, Statistics
Velin EDROV
First Secretary
Intellectual property – Patent, Design, Trade Marks, application, European Patent Office, European Union Intellectual Property Office
Agriculture and Fisheries
Snezhana BLAGOEVA,
Minister Plenipotentiary, Head of sector Agriculture and fishery
Special Committee on Agriculture (SCA), Common agricultural policy (CAP)
Zefira ESKIDAROVA
Counsellor, Special Committee on Agriculture (SCA), Forestry, Agricultural statistics, Horizontal agricultural issues
Antoaneta GINOVA
Second secretary
Phytosanitary Issues, Food Safety, Pesticides
Georgi SUBEV
Counsellor
Veterinary matters, Animal products and feed, GMOs
Georgi RALCHEV
First Secretary
Fisheries Policy, Committees on Fisheries
Petar VALCHEV
Third Secretary
Financial management, control and audit of the agricultural funds, research / reconciliation procedures, Rural development
Transport, Telecommunications and Energy
Vanya DIMITORVA
Counsellor, Head of sector Transport and Telecommunications
Air transport, Aviation safety, Aviation security, Single European Sky
Stephan STANCHEV
Counsellor
Maritime transport, Inland waterways
Miroslava BORISSOVA
First Secretary
Road and Rail Transport
Kalina DIMITROVA
First Secretary
Telecommunications and Information Society, Postal Services
Tzvetoslav MITEV
Second secretary
E-governance
Ivelina IVANOVA
Second secretary
Nuclear energy, Nuclear safety
Polina PALIEVA
Counsellor. Conventional energy,
Daniel Shekerletov
Third secretary
Transport, Intermodal Questions and Networks
Employment, Social Policy, Health and Consumer protection
Todor KRASTEV
Counsellor, Head of sector Employment and Social Policy
Social Protection, Employment, Social inclusion
Mihail ILIEV
Second secretary
Social policy, Labour migration and integration
Zlatimira DOBREVA
First Secretary
Healthcare, Pharmaceutical Products and Medical Devices
Environment
Detelina PEICHEVA
Counsellor, Water management, Horizontal and Global Environmental Issues
Radoslav LOZANOV
Third Secretary
Climate change
Education, Research, Youth, Culture and Sport
Nevena IVANOVA
Second Secretary
Education Committee
Youmer KODJAYUMER
Third Secretary, Education, Research and Innovation
Georgi CHAPOV
Third Secretary
Sport and Youth
Zhivka HASKIYA
First Secretary
Culture, Audiovisual Policy and Copyright