From 02.09.2023

Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary to India

2018-2022

Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary to Azerbaijan and Turkmenistan (based in Baku)

2012-2016

Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary to Afghanistan

2007-2010

Defense, Military, Air and Naval Attaché in Rome, Italy

2005-2007

Director of the Armaments and Equipment Policy Directorate, MoD

2003-2005

Acting Director, Defense Planning and Programming Directorate, MoD

1999-2003

Military and Air attaché in Washington D.C., USA

1998-1999

Senior expert at the Euroatlantic Cooperation Directorate, MoD

1990-1995

Chief of Staff of the 24th Transport Hellicopter Air Force Base

1980-1988

Numerous staff positions at the Bulgarian Air Force’s combat units

Education:

1975-1980

Air Force Academy “G. Benkovsky”, Dolna Mitropoliya, Bulgaria

1988-1990

National Defense College “G.S. Rakovski”, Sofia, Bulgaria

1996-1997

Air Command and Staff College (ACSC), Maxwell AFB, Alabama, USA

1999-2001

Air War College (AWC), Alabama, USA (correspondence)

2013-2015

PhD Doctorate, UNIBIT University, Sofia, Bulgaria

Languages: English, Russian, Bulgarian (native)

Married to Mrs. Viliana Yankova and they have two sons