Julian Georgiev Popov ( bg, Юлиан Георгиев Попов; born 21 September 1959) is a

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, politician, public figure and writer. Popov is the author of the book ''English Bulgaria or Switzerland in the Balkans'' (2004), the novel ''Island of Mists'' (2006), co-author of the books "The European Supergrid" and "Energy and Climate Diplomacy" and of many comment and opinion articles on energy policies, European integration,

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and international relations for the Bulgarian, British (

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), Polish and other European media, as well as for

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. He has also been an advocate for minority groups in Bulgaria, starting a campaign to remove a racist

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group from

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and writing articles (for instance for Al Jazeera) on the maltreatment of Roma minority in Bulgaria and across Europe. He is fellow of the

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, Chairman of the Board of Directors of the Buildings Performance Institute Europe, Chairman of the Board of the " Elizabeth Kostova Foundation" for

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, and until becoming Cabinet Minister in 2013 served as Chairman of the Board of the Bulgarian School of Politics and as a member of the board of the

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. He is a member of the Board of Trustees of the

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and Director and Treasurer of the British charity Friends of Bulgaria. He was also the founding CEO of the New Bulgarian University where he introduced distance education to Bulgaria. In 2006 he created the first political blog in the Bulgarian language. Popov was appointed the Minister of Environment and Water in the

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on 13 March 2013. He left office on 29 May of that year. In 2016 he was recognised as one of the 40 most influential voices in European energy policy under N24 by the Brussels media service

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. In 2023 he was nominated as potential Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Environment by the PP-DB coalition (who had obtained second place in the

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). He was appointed as Minister of Environment and Water of Bulgaria

References

External links

Elizabeth Kostova Foundation

Bulgarian School of Politics

{{DEFAULTSORT:Popov, Julian 1959 births Living people British male journalists British writers Bulgarian male writers Bulgarian expatriates in England Government ministers of Bulgaria Sofia University alumni Politicians from Sofia