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Bulgaria's PM promotes economic adviser to Cabinet

Wed, Jan 20 2010 14:22 CET

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Bulgaria's PM promotes economic adviser to Cabinet

Ilian Mihov

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Prime Minister Boiko Borissov will appoint his current economic adviser Ilian Mihov to the Cabinet, Borissov told reporters on January 20 2010 after the Cabinet's weekly meeting, without specifying what position Mihov would take.

Mihov would "strengthen the economy and finance area," Borissov said, giving rise to speculation that Mihov could become a Deputy Prime Minister.

That would make Mihov the third Deputy Prime Minister, with Interior Minister Tsvetan Tsvetanov and Finance Minister Simeon Dyankov holding similar positions.

Mihov is a professor of economics at one of the world's leading and largest graduate business schools, INSEAD, where he teaches macroeconomics and econometrics.

He has a PhD from Princeton University. His areas of teaching include business cycles, monetary and fiscal policy, long-term economic growth, and exchange rate determination.

For his teaching in the MBA program he won the Best Teacher Award in 2006.

His research is primarily in the fields of monetary and fiscal policies, economic growth and political economy.

Mihov is also a research professor at the German Institute for Economic Research (DIW Berlin) and a research fellow at the Center for Economic Policy Research in London. Since 2002, he has served on the Scientific Committee of the Banque de France's Research Foundation.

He is also an associate editor at the Journal of the European Economic Association and Macroeconomic Dynamics. In 2006, Mihov was awarded the Distinguished Young Alumnus award by the Moore School of Business at the University of South Carolina.

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Anonymous Vincent Wed, Jan 20 2010 22:14 CET
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Mihov is top of the crop of the world economists. He could take Bernanke's job without any problem. Weldone GERB !


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