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EDUCATION

University Degree in Law
MA in Law, Major “Financial and Tax Law”, Sofia University “St. Kliment Ohridski”, 1976 - 1980.

POST-GRADUATE
QUALIFICATIONS

Sofia University “St. Kliment Ohridski” – Part-time Lecturer in Financial Law – semesters 1985/1986 and 1986/1987.
Specialization on macroeconomic planning and forecasting, techniques for rescheduling of external debt – Rome, Italy– October-December 1990.

LANGUAGES

English, French, Russian and Italian

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

• 2009 - 2019 Member of the Executive Council of the BCCI
• From 1 March 2006 – Partner in Tabakov, Tabakova and Partners Law Firm;
• European Patent Attorney since 2004;
• Member of Transnational Tax Network (TTN) since 2004. Elected Member of the Organization’s Financial Committee since September 2013;
• since 1995 – „Interlex Consult” LTD – Partner;
• from 01. 07. 1993 – Lawyer at Sofia Bar Association;
• 01. 01. 1992 – 30. 06. 1993: Paris, France – Consultant at the Committee on tax matters with the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development;
• from 01. 11. 1991 -  Interlex Consult-Todor Tabakov ET– Sole Proprietor;
• 01. 07. 1991 - 08. 10. 1991г.: Sofia, Bulgaria, Preston Finance LTD – Manager;
• 12. 12. 1990 - 01. 07. 1991г.: Sofia, Bulgaria, Ministry of Finance – Head of Department “International Finance”;
• 01. 12. 1989 - 12. 12. 1990: Sofia, Bulgaria,  Ministry of Finance – Head of “International Tax Treaties and Investment Contracts” Directorate, and Head of the Bulgarian delegation having concluded DTC with China, Japan, Netherlands, Greece, India, Sri Lanka, Indonesia, Luxembourg, Switzerland, South Korea, Canada and USA; Member of the Bulgarian delegation in the negotiations within the Mutual Investment Promotion and Protection Treaties with Italy, France, Great Britain, Belgium-Luxembourg Economic Union, Kuwait, China, Japan and USA; Member of the Bulgarian delegation, signed the First Agreement on Trade and Economic Cooperation with the European Commission (1990);
• 01. 12. 1987 - 01. 12. 1989: Sofia, Bulgaria, Ministry of Economy and Planning  – Chief Expert „Financial Policy” Directorate;
• 01. 04. 1986 - 01. 12. 1987: Sofia, Bulgaria, Ministry of Finance – Senior Legal Advisor;
• 01. 05. 1981 - 01. 05. 1985: Sofia, Bulgaria – Judge at Sofia District Court, Judge at Sofia City Court;

EXTERNAL PARTICIPATIONS

• Member of Sofia Bar Association since 1993;
• Correspondent to the International Bureau of Fiscal Documentation – Amsterdam, 1992-1995;
• Correspondent to Tax Analysts – Wayne University, Virginia, USA, since 1991;
• Member and Chairman of the Supervisory Council of the BCCI, 1989-1996;
• Member of the Board of Directors of the BCCI since 1997;
• Member of the Executive Council of the BCCI since 2009;
• Member and Chairman of the Supervisory Council of Open Society Foundation – 1991-2003;
• Member of IFA – International Fiscal Association since 1994;
• Member of the European Association of Trustees since 1995;
• Member of the Board of the Chamber of Tax Consultants in Bulgaria since 2005;
• Associate member of the Argentine Association for Fiscal Research – since July 2005;
• Lifetime member of the Board of Directors of the International Biographical Association – Cambridge, UK since 1998;
• European Patent Attorney since 2004;
• Biographical record in “Who is who in the World” since 1990, „Who is Who in America”, “Who is Who in Finance and Business” since 1994;
• Member of the Supervisory Council of ZAD Bulstrad AD, June 2007 - May 2011;
• Member of the Supervisory Council of ZAD “Bulstrad-Life”, June 2007 - May 2011;
• Member of the Board of the Silver Fund (State Fund for Guaranteeing the Stability of the Pension System), since November 2011;

SEMINARS

Lecturer at seminars presenting Bulgarian economy, US legal and fiscal system (1989), Portugal (1990), Finland (1992), Germany (Euromoney  Conference 1990), Switzerland (1990, 1991) OECD (1991 - Paris, 1992 – Copenhagen, 1993-Ankara), Sofia (1993, 1997, 1998), London (1997), Bonn (1997), Sofia (1999), Paris (2000), Sofia  (2004, 2006, 2011).

PUBLICATIONS

Over 75 publications in Bulgaria on legal and fiscal matters.
Publications in Tax Notes International (tax analysts) and Central Europe (Euromoney). 
„Interlex Consult” LTD is an exclusive holder of the issuing rights of the Bulgarian translation of the Tax Convention Model by OECD along with the Commentaries of 20 April 2006. On 19.03. 2008 „Interlex Consult” published the first official Bulgarian translation of the Model and Commentaries, in the short version since July 2005.
Publications in the English magazine for Strategic Finance “Corporate UK” where he was correspondent in 2009.