Ivanka Dilovska is Chairman of the Management Board of the Energy Management Institute since it was established in June 2010. Her extended professional experience in the energy sector began in ENERGOPROEKT JSC and afterwards she took over managing positions in the energy ministry as Director of directions for energy strategy, projects, markets and state governance (1993-1996, 2002-2005, 2007-2010) and Deputy Minister of Energy (1996, 2005-2006). Major areas of interest and responsibilities during these periods are the sector policies and strategies, energy balances, statistics, analysis and prognosis; energy markets and projects; regulation; privatization and restructuring of the branch.
At the same time Mrs. Dilovska was a member of the management and supervisory boards of a number of big energy companies as a representative of the minister of energy. She has worked as a consultant to the Energy Commission in the National Assembly, the Privatization Agency, the State energy and water regulatory commission, a number of PHARE projects related to energy policies, the Economic and Investment Bank.
Mrs. Dilovska has a master degree in Business Administration and Electronic Processing of Information from the University of National and World Economy.

Violeta Simeonоva Stanicic is the Head of the European Parliament Information Office in Bulgaria. She was born in Varna, Bulgaria. Mrs. Stanicic graduated in Journalism from Sofia University "St. Kliment Ohridski" and received her Masters degree in Political Science at the Northeastern University in Boston, United States.
She is a journalist with more than 17 years of working experience in the leading Bulgarian medias such as "24 chasa" and "Standart" dailies. She has been cooperating with BTV, "Dnevnik" daily, "Tema" magazine, etc. Mrs. Stanicic has been a freelancer and author of "Time" magazine for more than 10 years. She is an author of over 1000 articles and analyses.
In 2009, after winning the European Institutions' competition, she became Head of the European Parliament Information Office in Bulgaria. 

Kamen Kolev was born on 19 March 1954.He graduated from the Technical University in Sofia in the specialty of technical system and has defended a candidate dissertation "Doctor of Financial Analysis".
He has specialized in USA, Japan, United Kingdom, Germany and Switzerland in the field of industrial analysis, public and private partnerships, public commissions, evaluation and financing of investment projects and others.
He is a licensed appraiser of the American Association of Business Appraisers and is a Member of the Monitoring Committee of the SAPARD and ISPA programmes; of the operational programmes "Competitiveness", "Regional Development" and "Administrative Capacity".
He participated in the development of the National Plan for Economic Development of Bulgaria in the period 2007-2013 and of the regional operational programmes in the period 2007 – 2013.
He is an author of the books "Technological innovations" and "Public Procurement – Procedures and Practices", also of a Manual of Energy Management.
He has been working in BIA for 24 years, consecutively occupying the positions of a senior expert, Director and Director General.
Since 2005 he has been a Vice President of BIA and supervises the branches of Industrial Development, Investments and Economic Analysis, EU funds and Better Regulation.
He speaks fluently English and Russian. 

Pavla Mandatova is Advisor in the Networks Unit of EURELECTRIC, the European electricity industry Association.
Within EURELECTRIC, Pavla is responsible for several working groups of the Networks Committee, including the WG Distribution Regulation and Policy and WG TSO-DSO Interface. The focus of those groups is to represent European DSOs with one voice towards European Institutions and stakeholders on issues such as network regulation, deployment of Smart Grids and development of European network codes. Besides that, she is also following integration of generation, including renewable energy sources, to European distribution networks.
Prior to joining EURELECTRIC in 2011, Pavla worked as an EU affairs specialist in CEPS (the Czech transmission system operator). She holds a master’s degree in international relations (Charles University in Prague).



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Georgi Nikolov holds the position General Secretary of Aurubis Bulgaria, the third largest company in the country. He has a master degree in "Law" of"St. Kliment Ohridski" University. He started his career as a legal counsel of Himcomplect Engineering in 1992. In the period 1993 – 1998 he held the position of Chief Legal Counsel in Bulgartabac, and since 1998 till now he has been working for the copper producer situated near Pirdop currently named Aurubis Bulgaria, where he experienced various positions and is directly involved in the management and the social policy of the company. He is a memberof the managing boards ofthe Bulgarian Associationof Metallurgical Industry (BAMI), Bulgarian Federationof Industrial Energy Consumers (BFIEK) and SrednogorieMedIndustrialCluster(SMIK). He is married withtwo children.

Radoslav Mikov is a Senior Associate based in the Sofia office of Wolf Theiss. Radoslav has extensive expertise in the energy sector covering a wide spectrum of issues related to the regulatory framework such as generation, public procurement, licences and tariffs, connection to the grid, electricity distribution, non-discriminatory compliance programmes and equal access issues, retail supply and electricity trade, as well as construction matters. In addition, Radoslav is experienced in the legal aspects of multi-disciplinary due diligence projects with respect to regulatory and real estate law matters in the energy sector. Radoslav has been involved in the decision making processes of some of the largest energy sector stakeholders operating in Bulgaria. With more than nine years in the electricity sector value chain Radoslav has an outstanding business view and approach to the energy market.
Radoslav previously worked for Kozloduy Nuclear Power Plant in Bulgaria as a senior counsel where he was involved in Units 3-6 modernization programme and 1-2 Units decommissioning. He continued his energy career as head of regulatory management of E.ON Bulgaria, one of the three private distribution companies.
For the past three years, Radoslav has advised on some of the most important energy projects in Bulgaria, such as the restructuring of the Bulgarian Energy Holding related with the implementation of the third energy package and the development and commissioning the largest photovoltaic park on the Balkans with an installed capacity of 60.4 MWp.