Todor Aleksandrov Tanev (

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: Тодор Александров Танев; born 30 October 1957), is a

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n political scientist and sociologist, who served as the Minister of Education and Science as part of the

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until his resignation in February 2016.

Biography

Born in

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, Tanev graduated from the English language high school in the city in 1976 and subsequently earned a BA in sociology from Sofia University in 1982. He is the holder of two

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, both in the field of political science - the first one since 1991 and the second one since 2002. Tanev has made specializations in the

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and the

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as well as lectured in these countries. Tanev is a member of the citizens' council (Bulgarian: Граждански съвет) of the Reformist Bloc. On 7 November 2014, he assumed his duties as Minister of Education and Science, succeeding Rumyana Kolarova.

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