EUROPEAN
CURRICULUM VITAE
FORMAT
PERSONAL INFORMATION
Name MILENA MINKOVA
Address 15, AKSAKOV STR.,1000, SOFIA, BULGARIA
Telephone 00 359 888 919017
Fax 00 359 2 851 8775
E-mail minkova@policy.hu; mminkova@moody.bg
Nationality Bulgarian
Date of birth 17.07.1967
WORK EXPERIENCE
• Dates (from – to) From February, 2000- at present
• Name and address of employer University of Sofia “St. Climent
Ochridsky”
• Type of business or sector Education
• Occupation or position held Associated professor
• Main activities and responsibilities Teaching Public Administration
course /60 hours per semester/
European Union Law course
Teaching Legal Aspects of Foreign Investment course /30 hours per semester,
Master of PA Students/
• Dates (from – to) From March, 2001- at present
• Name and address of employer Institute for Public Administration
and European Integration
• Type of business or sector Training
• Occupation or position held Visiting Lecturer
• Main activities and responsibilities Teaching a course on Regulatory
Impact Assessment and Benchmarking tools
Dates (from – to) October, 2001- at present
• Name and address of employer Local Government Initiative Project,
sponsored by USAID
• Type of business or sector Policy reform sector
• Occupation or position held Permanent External Consultant-
Policy Reform
Assignments: Drafting White Paper on Regional Development- 2001
Leading WG on Preparation of the Explanatory Memorandum of Bulgaria
to the
Council of Europe on situation of local and regional democracy - 2003
Participation in the WG on Preparing Draft Act on Municipal Lending- 2004
• Main activities and responsibilities EU compliance test
• Dates (from – to) JUNE, 2003- AT PRESENT
• Name and address of employer MSI Systems International, 57,
Bul. Maria Luiza, 1000, Sofia
• Type of business or sector Policy reform sector, sponsored
by USAID
• Occupation or position held Consultant policy and legal reform
• Main activities and responsibilities Consulting the Loan Guarantee
Fund Scheme for SMEs-developing concept paper, necessary legal documentation
to make the Fund operational
Consulting preparation of by-laws to support the Act on Regulation
of Economic Activity
Impact Assessment of Government Policy over the SME sector
• Dates (from – to) SEPTEMBER, 2002- AT PRESENT
• Name and address of employer Moody International Certification
Company, Narodno sabranie, 3, Sofia, Bulgaria
• Type of business or sector ISO Certification
• Occupation or position held Legal Expert, ISO 9001:2000, ISO
14001:1996, OSHAS 18000 Lead Auditor
• Main activities and responsibilities Responsible for Legal
compliance test
• Dates (from – to) June 1996-November 1997
• Name and address of employer Raiffeisen Bank Bulgaria, 15,
Serdika Sofia
• Type of business or sector Banking
• Occupation or position held Senior Legal advisor
• Main activities and responsibilities Consulting Credit, Operations
and Business Development Departments
• Dates (from – to) January 1992-July 1994
• Name and address of employer Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Sofia,
Bulgaria
• Type of business or sector Governance
• Occupation or position held Legal advisor- International Law
Department
• Main activities and responsibilities Consulting foreign investment
issues
EDUCATION AND TRAINING
• Dates (from – to) 1997-2000
• Name and type of organization providing education and training
Central European University Budapest
/transfer student- 4 semesters in the NYU-Law School- credits transferred/
• Principal subjects/occupational
skills covered Legal studies – International Private Law
Doctoral thesis “Competition Law Framework in CEECs in light of the
EU standards”
• Title of qualification awarded Doctor of Juridical Science
• Level in national classification
(if appropriate) Doctor of Laws
• Dates (from – to) 1995-1996
• Name and type of organization providing education and training
University of Hamburg, Europa Kolleg, Hamburg
• Principal subjects/occupational
skills covered European Integration and International
Relations
• Title of qualification awarded Diploma in European Integration
and International Relations
• Level in national classification
(if appropriate)
• Dates (from – to) 1994-1995
• Name and type of organization providing education and training
Central European University Budapest
/transfer student-1 semester in the University of Chicago Law School-credits
transferred/
• Principal subjects/occupational
skills covered Legal studies – International Private Law
• Title of qualification awarded Master in International Private
Law
• Level in national classification
(if appropriate) Master of Laws
• Dates (from – to) 1986-1991
• Name and type of organization providing education and training
University of Sofia “St. Climent Ochridsky”, Bulgaria
• Principal subjects/occupational
skills covered Legal studies
• Title of qualification awarded Master of Laws
• Level in national classification
(if appropriate) Master of Laws
PERSONAL SKILLS
AND COMPETENCES
Acquired in the course of life and career but not necessarily covered
by formal certificates and diplomas.
MOTHER TONGUE Bulgarian
OTHER LANGUAGES
• Reading skills English, German, Russian: excellent
• Writing skills English, German, Russian: excellent
• Verbal skills
English, German, Russian: excellent
SOCIAL SKILLS
AND COMPETENCES
Living and working with other people, in multicultural environments,
in positions where communication is important and situations where teamwork
is essential (for example culture and sports), etc.
Executive Director of the National Association of Finance Specialists
in the Public Sector- since July 2003
Chairperson of the Supervisory Board- Moody International Certification
Company-since 2003
Deputy Chair of the Management Board of the Balkan Forum on Quality-
since January, 2004
Practical Diplomacy skills- Training Program in Practical Diplomacy- Foreign Service Institute, Washington DC, 2003, Experience as a foreign service officer
ORGANISATIONAL SKILLS
AND COMPETENCES
Coordination and administration of people, projects and budgets; at
work, in voluntary work (for example culture and sports) and at home, etc.
Chairperson of the Supervisory Board- Moody International Certification
Company
Executive Director of the National Association of Finance Specialists
in the Public Sector- since July 2003
Center for Policy Studies Budapest, International Policy Fellow, IPF
2003
Research title: Redefining the new role of the regions in Bulgaria
Local Government Institute, LGI Budapest, Research Fellow, 2001
Research title: Local government reform in Bulgaria- Legal and Policy
Framework
Project monitoring- Delegation of the European Commission, Bulgaria
Project monitoring: Bulgarian-Swiss Forestry Program, since 2002- at
present
Project management: Improving local finance system in Bulgaria, MATRA,
2002-2004
TECHNICAL SKILLS
AND COMPETENCES
With computers, specific kinds of equipment, machinery, etc.
Excellent computer skills
ARTISTIC SKILLS
AND COMPETENCES
Music, writing, design, etc. Short novels published
Excellent writing and editing skills
OTHER SKILLS
AND COMPETENCES
Competences not mentioned above.
Member of Working Groups ?21- Regional policy and ? 6- Competition
on harmonization of Bulgarian laws with the acquis communautaire of the
EU /since December, 2000/
Member of the Working Group on Decentralization to the Ministry of Regional Development and Public Works, Bulgaria, since December, 2003A
National Association of Municipalities in Bulgaria-LGI, Bulgaria, 2003
Co-Author of Explanatory Memorandum of Bulgaria to the Council of Europe
on the Situation of Local Government
Unidroit, International Institute for the Unification of Private Law,
Rome, 1999Participation in Working Group for Preparation of Model Law on
Franchising
DRIVING LICENCE(S) yes
ADDITIONAL INFORMATION List of names and e-mail addresses of potential
referees:
Howard Ockman, Director Management Systems International, Bulgaria
Supported by USAID
e-mail: howard@msi.bg
Christoph Duerr, Foreign Policy Reform Advisor
Bulgarian-Swiss Forestry Program, Sofia
e-mail: cduerr@sylvica.org
Anelia Atanassova- Head Policy and Legal Reform Team,
Local Government Initiative Project, Sofia, Supported by USAID
e-mail: atanassova@lgi-bg.org
ANNEXES [ANNEX 1-LIST OF PUBLICATIONS ]
Annex 1
PUBLICATIONS
BOOKS
“Investing in Bulgaria”- a survey of Bulgarian legal framework,
to be published by Lovells, Frankfurt
“Investitionsland Bulgarien”, accepted for publication by DEG Verlag, Germany
“Franchising” – CIELA Publishing House, Sofia, 2001;
“Policy to Vertical restrains in the European Union and Bulgaria”-
Institute for Economic Policy, Bulgaria, 2001;
Investment profile of Bulgaria in
“Investing in Southeastern Europe- a survey of national legal systems”,
Editors: Prof. Dr. Stefan Messmann, Vladimir Pavic,
CEU Press, Budapest-New York, 2004
“Legal reform in local government-Comparative analysis of the achievements in Bulgaria, Hungary and Poland”, LGI- Budapest, 2001
DISCUSSION PAPERS AND ARTICLES
Defining the new role of the regions in Bulgaria- Policy Research Paper,
Center for Policy Studies, Budapest, to be published in 2004
The Regional Development in the CEECs in the Context of the Association
Agreements and the EU Regional Aid Policy,
Discussion paper, Local Government Institute, Dec. 1999.
"Competition Policy Concerns in the Harmonization of the CEE Competition
Laws with the Competition law Framework of the European Union",
Discussion paper, Center for Economic Development, Bratislava, August
1999.
“ The Approximation of Competition Rules Assignment in the context
of
the Bulgarian Transition”,Business and Law, 12 Jan.2000
“What is franchising and does it require a specific regulation in Bulgaria”,
Business and Law, Issues 11, 12, 13 and 14 from March-April, 2000
‘The Legal rules on State Aids and the Process of Association of Bulgaria into the EU”, Commercial Law, Issue 6, 1999
“Legal Problems in the competition clauses of the Association Agreements
between the CEECs and the EU”, Commercial Law, Issue 1, 2000