UPN, Alm.del - 2010-11 (1. samling)

Nickolay Mladenov was appointed Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Republic ofBulgaria by the 41st National Assembly on January 27th 2010.Between July 2009 and January 2010 he was Minister of Defense of the Republic ofBulgaria.Between 2007 and 2009 he was Member of the European Parliament. He served on theForeign Affairs Committee – Security and Defense Subcommittee, and on the InternalMarket and Consumer Protection Committee. He was also Vice-Chairman of theDelegation for relations with Iraq and served on the delegations for Israel andAfghanistan.Since 2005 he has consulted the World Bank, NDI, IRI and other internationalorganizations in South Eastern Europe, the Middle East, Iraq, Afghanistan, Yemen andMorocco.Between 2001 and 2005 Mr. Mladenov was Member of the Bulgarian Parliamentwhere he served as Vice-Chairman of the European Integration Committee and sat onthe Foreign and Defense Policy Committee. During that period he was representativetotheConstitutionalConventionontheFutureofEurope.Previously he worked for the World Bank and the Open Society Institute for Bulgariaand South East Europe.Mr. Mladenov has a MA degree in War Studies from King’s College, London, BA andMA - International Relations, from the University for National and World Economy,Sofia.He speaks English, French and Russian.