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Nikolai Mladenov (37) – Foreign Minister

Fri, Jul 31 2009 09:58 CET

byThe Sofia Echo staff

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Nikolai Mladenov (37) – Foreign Minister

Mladenov started his political career with the Union of Democratic Forces, serving as party spokesperson in 2002/04 and deputy leader in 2004/05. He resigned in 2005 and later joined GERB, winning an MEP seat in the 2007 elections. Formerly the programme director of the Open Society Institute in Sofia and a programme co-ordinator at the World Bank, he was a World Bank adviser in 2005/07. He holds degrees in international relations from UNWE and King’s College London.

He was appointed Defence Minister in July 2009, but in the January 2010 Cabinet re-shuffle, Mladenov was given the foreign affairs portfolio, replacing Roumyana Zheleva, who resigned following her disastrous confirmation hearing in European Parliament as European Commissioner-designate.

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