Emil Iliev Koshlukov ( bg, Емил Илиев Кошлуков; born 26 October 1965) is a

Bulgaria Bulgaria (; bg, България, Bǎlgariya), officially the Republic of Bulgaria,, ) is a country in Southeast Europe. It is situated on the eastern flank of the Balkans, and is bordered by Romania to the north, Serbia and North Macedo ...

n journalist, media manager and former politician.

Life

Born in

Pazardzhik Pazardzhik ( bg, Пазарджик ) is a city situated along the banks of the Maritsa river, southern Bulgaria. It is the capital of Pazardzhik Province and centre for the homonymous Pazardzhik Municipality. The Tatars founded Pazardzhik i ...

, Koshlukov graduated from the English language high school in Plovdiv in 1985 and subsequently studied English philology at

Sofia University Sofia University, "St. Kliment Ohridski" at the University of Sofia, ( bg, Софийски университет „Св. Климент Охридски“, ''Sofijski universitet „Sv. Kliment Ohridski“'') is the oldest higher education i ...

. Between 1991 and 1996, he was also enrolled as a political science student at the University of California in Santa Barbara. In 1989, he was one of the leading figures behind the formation of the first independent student organizations in communist Bulgaria and participated in civil disobedience campaigns against the government. After being affiliated with the UDF in the early 1990s, in 2001 Koshlukov was elected to the

National Parliament In modern politics, and history, a parliament is a legislative body of government. Generally, a modern parliament has three functions: representing the electorate, making laws, and overseeing the government via hearings and inquiries. Th ...

for the first time as part of

NDSV The National Movement for Stability and Progress ( bg, Национално движение за стабилност и възход, translit=Natsionalno dvizhenie za stabilnost i vazhod, NDSV) is a liberal, populist political party in Bulgari ...

. In 2004, he founded the New Age (Bulgarian: Новото Време) political party and became its chairman. The new party was not able to find representation in the National Parliament following the 2005 elections. In 2009, Koshlukov participated for 25 consecutive days in the third season of reality show

VIP Brother ''VIP Brother'' is a Bulgarian reality television game show in which a number of celebrity contestants live in an isolated house trying to avoid being evicted by the public with the aim of winning a large cash prize or collecting money for char ...

on the Bulgarian commercial TV channel '' Nova''. He was the only politician among a total of 25 celebrity participants. In early 2018, Koshlukov was appointed programme director of BNT1, the main channel of public service broadcaster

Bulgarian National Television The Bulgarian National Television ( Bulgarian: Българска национална телевизия, ''Balgarska natsionalna televizia'') or BNT (БНТ), stylized as ·Б·Н·Т· since 2018, is a public television broadcaster of Bulgari ...

(BNT). At the same time, he continued to host the daily political talk show ''More from the Day''. In 2019, the Bulgarian Council for Electronic Media appointed Koshlukov interim Director General of BNT.Emil Koshlukov to head BNT.
''Broadband TV News'', 25 April 2019.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Koshlukov, Emil 1965 births Living people National Movement for Stability and Progress politicians Bulgarian journalists People from Pazardzhik Sofia University alumni