NAME: Panayotov, Vladki Todorov.

BULGARIA

POLITICAL GROUP: Group of the Alliance of Liberals and Democrats for Europe (ALDE).

PARTY: Movement for Rights and Freedoms.

CONSTITUENCY: Bulgaria.

DATE OF LATEST ELECTION: 2009

Committees: Member of Committee on the Environment, Public Health and Food Safety; Member of Delegation for Relations with the People's Republic of China; Substitute, Committee on Regional Development; Substitute, Delegation for Relations with Japan; Substitute, Delegation to the Euro-Latin American Parliamentary Assembly.

Profession: Editor, Geology and Mineral Resources magazine since 2002; Associate Professor and Professor, University of Mining and Geology, Sofia 1990-2007; Director, College of Mining and Metallurgy, Kardzhali; Research Associate and Senior Research Associate, Deputy Director of the Joint Research and Implementation Centre of Gorubso Mining and Processing Operation and the Higher Institute of Mining and Geology 1980-1990; Central Institute for Complex Automation, Sofia, 1985.

Titles/honours/decorations: Gold Order of Labour 1985; Gold Medal from the International Technical Fair 1989; Foremost Processing Engineer of Bulgaria 2001; Gold Medal from the East-West Euro Intellect Technical Fair 2003; Honorary Citizen of Kardzhali 2005.

Education: Degree in Engineering (Chemical Cybernetics), Moscow, 27 February 1975; Doctorate, Sofia, 27 April 1980; Higher Institute of Mining and Geology, Sofia, Postgraduate Student 1977-1980; Central Institute for Complex Automation, Sofia 1985; Senior Research Associate, Rank II, March 1990; Doctor of Technical Science, 17 December 1998; Professor 2000.

Political Affiliations: Member of the Union of Chemists in Bulgaria since 2006; Member of the Union of Scientists in Bulgaria since 1984; Foreign Member of the Russian Mining Academy 2007; Member of the Supreme Attestation Committee 2004-2007; International Mineral Processing Congress, Member of a Scientific Advisory Committee, Member of the Balkan Mining Academy 2004.

Author of: Author of 4 textbooks, 3 monographs, 160 publications and 36 patents.

Born: 7 May 1950, Pavlikeni.