Mr. Ivan Iskrov is the Governor of the Bulgarian National Bank, having being appointed to this position in October 2003.

He was an MP at the Bulgarian National Assembly from 2001 to 2003, Chairman of the Budget and Finance Commission, Member of the European Integration Commission, and Member of the Bulgaria-EU Joint Parliamentary Commission. Ivan Iskrov was an Executive Director and member of the Management Board of Rosseximbank from 1999 to 2001. Over the period 1997-1999 he was an executive director and member of the Management Board of DSK Bank. He was previously an expert, examiner, and senior examiner at the BNB, Banking Supervision Department, from 1993 to 1997.

From 1992 to 1993 he was a visiting lecturer at the University of National and World Economy, Sofia, in the field of Banking Management. In 1999 Ivan Iskrov completed his postgraduate studies on Mortgage Securities and Markets in USA, Washington, Minneapolis, Pittsburg. Before that, in 1995, he attended a course held by Treuhand Agency, Sofia, on the subject of Banks and Financial Institutions Valuation, Banking Supervision, at the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation, Washington. A year earlier, in 1994, he specialised in Business Communications, organised by the US Treasury and the Chicago Reserve Bank, Sofia. In the same year he attended a course in Banking Supervision, organised by the Bank of England in Sofia.

Ivan Iskrov graduated from the University of National and World Economy and obtained an MSc in Economics in the field of Finance and Credit, Sofia, in 1992. He is a co-author of a textbook, "Money, Banks, and Monetary Policy", University Publishing House "St. Clement of Ohrid". Ivan Iskrov was born on 26 March 1967 in Pirdop. He is married with one child. He speaks English fluently.

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