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Born on 5 July 1952 in Bourgas, Bulgaria.; Graduated in Nuclear Power Plants and Facilities from the Moscow Institute of Energy and in Macroeconomics from the University of National and World Economy, Sofia.; Specializations: Finland, Canada, France and the USA.; 1979-1984 - positions in the Kozloduy Nuclear Power Plant....more

Joined Global Finance in February 2003. Before joining Global Finance, Valeri was CEO of the largest paints& coatings company in Bulgaria. During the period he was also acting as a Group Managing Director (marketing and sales) of the Romanian-Bulgarian Policolor/Orgachim group covering all the markets in south-eastern Europe...more

David A. Andelman is Executive Editor of Forbes.com, the world's largest business and financial website with 15 million monthly viewers. Previously, he served for four years as Business Editor of The New York Daily News, after serving as editor in chief of Smallcapcenter.com, a global business and financial news website. This followed four and a half years he spent as news editor of Bloomberg News and Bloomberg.com. For 12 years he was a domestic and foreign correspondent for The New York Times...more

Atanas Goranov is a Vice President, Risk Management at GE Asset management, an asset management firm with more than $180BB of assets under management invested in public and private equities, fixed income, real estate and hedge funds around the world. Atanas Goranov leads the investment risk management team for public equities and fixed income...more

Elena Borislavova Poptodorova
Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary
Republic of Bulgaria to the United States of America

Professional Career: Since February 2002 - Ambassador of Bulgaria to the United States; June 2001- February 2002 - Director, Directorate of International Organizations and Human Rights; August 2001 - additionally appointed Spokesperson of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs; June 1990 - April 2001 - Member of Parliament - Committee of Foreign Policy and European Integration, National Security Committee, Committee on Radio and Television, Committee on Human Rights; Committee on Agriculture...more

Maria-Francesca Spatolisano
Head of the Economic Affairs section at the Delegation of the European Commission to the United Nations

Maria-Francesca Spatolisano is the Head of the Economic Affairs section at the Delegation of the European Commission to the United Nations. In this capacity, she covers inter alia all issues related to trade, development and environmental policies discussed at the UN, in particular under the Second Committee....more

Mr. Stalev was born in December 5th 1952 in Sofia Bulgaria. After he graduated from the German Gymnasium "Nicola Gulubov" we continued his education at the "St. Clement Ochridski" in Sofia Bulgaria, which led him in acquiring a Masters in Law and later on a PhD in Law. Starting his professional career in 1981, Mr. Stalev was appointed a senior scientific collaborator in the Institute of Law Science....more

Ms Tosheva graduated from the Technical University -Sofia, as an Economist majoring in Industrial Management Engineering. From 1997 till 2000 served as an expert at State Agency of Energy and Energy resources in the Financial Department and from 1997 till 2000 she was a Member of the Board of Directors of "Energoremont Varna" EAD...more

As of 1996, founder, President and CEO of Capital Link, Inc., an international investor relations and financial advisory group. It assists listed companies and capital markets related organizations to develop and maintain access to European and North American investors. He also established and managed, Alexander Capital, L.P, a US broker-dealer firm, which developed brokerage and investment banking business in North America with the Greek, Egyptian and Russian markets...more