29.01.2026
At a meeting of the Council of Deans held on January 28, 2026, Assoc. Prof. Dr. Atanas Georgiev was unanimously elected as Chairman. The Council includes the deans of the faculties and directors of the departments of Sofia University "St. Kliment Ohridski".
The Dean of the Faculty of Economics and Business Administration will lead the Council of Deans for one year. He takes over from the Dean of the Faculty of Slavic Studies Prof. DSc Amelia Licheva, whose term has expired. Assoc. Prof. Dr. Atanas Georgiev has been in his second term as Dean of the Faculty of Economics and Business Administration since October 2019 and has been the youngest among the deans of faculties at Sofia University "St. Kliment Ohridski" since then.
Assoc. Prof. Dr. Atanas Georgiev is a graduate of the Faculty of Economics and Business Administration, graduating consecutively with a bachelor's degree ("Economics", 2004), and master's degrees ("Finance and Banking" and "Energy Economics and Management" - 2007 and 2008) and a PhD - with a dissertation on the topic "The institutional independence of the national energy regulator in Bulgaria" - in 2016. As a student, Assoc. Prof. Georgiev chaired the student organization "Business Club" in the Faculty of Economics and Business Administration and was member of Sofia University’s Students Council, and subsequently, he was the chairman of the Board of the FEBA Alumni Club.
Since 2005, he has been teaching part-time, and since 2007 - as a full-time assistant in the Department of "Economics and Management by Sectors", where he has been scientific secretary, Director of the Master's program "Energy Markets and Services" and Head of Department (2018-2026). His scientific interests are in the field of energy economics and regulation of utility services, he is the author of 2 books and over 40 scientific publications, as well as the scientific supervisor of over 70 master's theses in this field. In 2019, he was elected Dean of the Faculty of Economics and Business Administration and a member of the Academic Council for the first time.
Since 2024, Assoc. Prof. Dr. Atanas Georgiev has also been Acting Director of the Institute of Law, Economics and Intellectual Property at Sofia University "St. Kliment Ohridski", which houses the University's specialized Office for Technology Transfer.
Assoc. Prof. Georgiev also visited a number of specializations at leading institutions: “Bulgaria Seminar for Opinion Leaders on Chinese Modernization” organized by the International Cooperation Center of the National Development and Reform Commission of the People’s Republic of China in 2025; the LEAP program at Babson College (Boston, USA) in 2023 funded by the America for Bulgaria Foundation, Generation Next at Rossotrudnichestvo in the Russian Federation in 2015, an IVLP on Global Energy Security in 2014 organized by the US State Department (DC, NY, OK, CA, WA), Energy School at Azerbaijan Diplomatic Academy in 2014, courses on "Pricing" and "Benchmarking" at the Public Utility Research Center (University of Florida, USA) in 2013, Energy Law at Florence School of Regulation (European University Institute - Italy), as well as training on Energy Security at Masaryk University (Czech Republic), etc.
He also teaches as a guest lecturer in the energy diplomacy courses of the Diplomatic Institute under the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Bulgaria and has been a guest lecturer at a number of universities, including the University of Cologne (Germany), 9 universities in Ukraine under the project of the Diplomatic Institute and University of Sarajevo (Bosnia and Herzegovina).
He is the coordinator and Head of several scientific and educational projects carried out at the Faculty of Economics and Business Administration in partnership with other organizations (the twinning projects Twin2Green, TWIN4ECO and SCHOLARNET funded by national scientific programs, a JRC-funded project, etc.). He participated in the implementation of university projects funded by the EU as well: Transform4Europe, INNOAIR, COP21:RIPPLES, etc.
Assoc. Prof. Georgiev participates in the management of a number of organizations: alternate member in the Administrative Board of the EU Agency for the Cooperation of Energy Regulators (ACER) since 2025, independent member of the Supervisory Board at UniCredit BulBank AD since 2022; member of the Board of Directors of Industrial Cluster "Electric Vehicles"; vice-chairman of the Management Board in the Innovation, Digitalization and New Technologies Council at the Bulgarian Chamber of Commerce and Industry, member of the Control Board at the FEB Foundation, and member of the Board of Directors of the National Committee of Bulgaria in the World Energy Council.
He is a member of international and national organizations such as the International Association for Energy Economics, International Facility Management Association, Association of Bulgarian Leaders and Entrepreneurs (ABLE), etc.
Outside the University, Assoc. Prof. Georgiev also worked as a consultant on energy restructuring in Economics (2005-2009) and in "Public Services" (from 2010 until now). Part of the team of the Controlling Manager in the EC case – DG Competition AT.39767 BEH Electricity (2016-2021). He is the publisher and editor-in-chief of the specialized magazines "Utilities" and "Facilities".