Ivan Sotirov

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Director of NATO Information Center at the Atlantic Club of Bulgaria. Previous posts include: Consul General of the Republic of Bulgaria in Chicago, USA; senior advisor to the Bulgarian Minister of Foreign Affairs; senior expert in the Committee on Foreign Policy, Defense and Security of the Bulgarian National Assembly; and Head of International Relations Department at the Center for Strategic Studies. Ivan graduated as a journalist in Lvov, Ukraine, and has a master’s degree from the National Defense College of Bulgaria. He attended senior executive courses at: the George C. Marshall European Center for Security Studies, Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Germany; the Institut des Hautes Etudes de Defense Nationale, Paris, France; and the National Security Center in Sofia, Bulgaria. Ivan was vice president of the International Atlantic Education Committee and a member of the Board of the Institute of Euro-Atlantic Security in Sofia, Bulgaria. He speaks Bulgarian (native), English, French and Russian.