Prof. Ivan Todorov
Honorary Consul of Antigua and Barbuda in Bulgaria
Prof. Ivan Todorov is Managing Partner of one of the leading Bulgarian law firms “Georgiev, Todorov & Co.” In addition, he is also lecturer in Administrative Law and Administrative Procedure at Plovdiv University “Paisiy Hilendarski”.
He has graduated in Law from Sofia University “St. Kliment Ohridski”. He has specialised in the University of South Carolina and later became an honorary citizen of Columbia, the capital of South Carolina. He also took part of a Program on the Revitalization of Central and East European Companies at The Association for Overseas Technical Scholarship (AOTS) in Tokyo, Japan.
He was involved as a member and rapporteur of the commission for Drafting of the Administrative Procedure Code, as well as a national rapporteur for the UN Program for Administrative Modernization of Central and Eastern Europe. He was also a national expert in the working group of UN for institutional and structural reforms in the judicial system in Bulgaria.
Prof. Todorov has been a member of the Board of Directors of one of the largest law firms in Europe – Eversheds Sutherland for two mandates.
Prof. Todorov is also the founder of the Bulgarian Association for European law.
He is an author of four legal monographs, one of which is published by an US publishing house, a textbook in Administrative Law, with six revised editions co-authored with Prof. Kino Lazarov, as well as of multiple legal articles.
In 2020 he received the prestigious award of the Economy Magazine and the largest employers’ organization – the Confederation of Employers and Industrialists in Bulgaria for “Mr. Economy” for his outstanding contribution to the development of the economy in Bulgaria and building a sustainable business in the last three decades.
