Honorary Professor Antoni SLAVINSKI
Senator since August 1, 2022
Member of the Board of Trustees of NBU in the period 14 March 1994 – 1 August 2022
Chairman of the Board of Trustees of NBU in the period 21 May 2011 – 7 June 2021
Member of the Council of Presidents of the Board of Trustees of NBU in the period 12 December 2011 – 7 June 2022
In the period 1999–2001 he was Minister of Transport and Communications. In 2001 he was elected Honorary Professor of NBU for his overall contribution to the New Bulgarian University and special merits to the Department of Telecommunications.
He was Chairman of the Telecommunications Association for over ten years, and then a member of the Board of Directors of the association, the largest non-governmental organization in the sector.
He was Chairman, and then a member of the Board of Directors of the Association “UBIFRANCE-BULGARIE”.
He is the Chairman of the European ICT Council for Structural Funds under the SFERA project of the 7th Framework Programme during the period 2008 - 2009.
He was the coordinator for Central and Eastern Europe of the Center of Excellences for distance learning of executives at the International Telecommunication Union during the period 2004 - 2007.
He participates in a number of national and international projects, including "Improving interdisciplinary skills and interaction with business of telecommunications specialists", "Promoting innovations in the industrial informatics and embedded computer systems sector through building a cooperation network.
Among his awards are the IDG Special Award "For special services to Bulgarian telecommunications", as well as the IDG Award for contribution to the development of the information society. He specialized at the Adam Smith Institute, London, Great Britain, the Joint Vienna Institute - Vienna, Austria and at ITU - Geneva, Switzerland.
He has over 100 publications in Bulgaria and abroad.
Prof. Georgi FOTEV, Ph.D.
Senator from July 24, 2019
Prof. Georgi Fotev is a member of the European Academy of Science and Arts. In the period 1991–1992 he was the Minister of Science and Higher Education of the Republic of Bulgaria. He worked as the Director of the Institute of Sociology, BAS, as a professor of philosophy, head of the section "History of Sociology". Among his more important publications are the books: "Sociological Theories of E. Durkheim, V. Pareto, M. Weber", "Principles of Positivist Sociology", "Social Reality and Imagination", "Civil Society", "The Other Ethnicity", "Boundaries of Politics", "Sociology of Deviant Behavior".
Prof. G. Fotev is an Honorary professor of NBU. He was awarded the title of Honorary Citizen of the State of Oklahoma, USA, as well as the Honorary Badge with a Blue Ribbon of Sofia University "St. Kliment Ohridski". He is the recipient of the annual award of the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences for the book "Social Reality and Imagination" and the Distinguished Service Award of American University in Bulgaria.
Honorary Professor Ljudmil Georgiev, Ph.D.
Senator since 1 August 2026.
Member of the Board of Trustees of NBU from 4 June 2016 to 31 July 2026.
Prof. Ljudmil Georgiev was Vice-Rector of NBU in the period 1997-2008, acting as Rector of NBU in the period 2009-2012 and Vice-Rector of NBU for Research and International Relations in the period 2013-2016. He is the founder of the subjects Public Administration and Regional Economics at NBU. His areas of expertise cover analysis and management of regional development, local government and administration, public administration, EU Structural Funds, strategies and structures for regional development , evaluation of research and educational projects, higher education development systems, institutional and programme accreditation, training systems for state officers, teaching skills and techniques etc.
Prof. Georgiev has been scientific secretary of the Administration Centre at the Council of Ministers and an expert in Public Administration at the Council of Ministers. He is member of the European Urban and Regional Studies Association based in London, of the Network of Institutes and Schools of Public Administration – Bratislava, of the International Regional Studies Association, of the Council of Administration at the International Institute of Administrative Sciences in Paris, of the Programme Committee of the Science with and for Society Working Programme of EC.
Prof. Georgiev is member of the Scientific Expert Council for development of the Capital at Sofia Municipality and manager of the Academic Association for organizing and conducting of specializations of state officers. He is the author leading the first in the country educational TV broadcast in market economy called “Economy Alphabet”.
Prof. L. Georgiev graduated economics and his PhD is in the sphere of economy and management of regional sytems. He is the author and editor of plenty of scientific publications – among them “Regional and Municipal Discrepancies”, “Regional Economy”, “Local Government”, “Marketing and Management of Local Administration”, “Comparative Public Administration”, “Ethics of Public Services”, “Enhencing and Improving the Management and Leadership in the Countries of Central and Eastern Europe”, “Teaching through Cases”, “147 tricks for good teaching” etc.
Prof. Toma TOMOV
Senator since August 1, 2020
Member of the Board of Trustees of NBU from 14.03.1994 to 01 August 2020
Prof. Tomov is the Director of the Center "Bulgarian Institute for Human Relations" at the New Bulgarian University. He is the Coordinator of the National Program for Mental Health Reform at the Ministry of Health. His professional career spans the First Psychiatric Clinic and the Department of Psychiatry, where he is an assistant professor of psychiatry, and Morogoro-Dar es Salaam, where he is a consultant for the Tanzanian mental health program. His main research interests are in the field of social psychiatry. He is a member of: the Bulgarian Psychodrama Society, the Bulgarian Psychiatric Association, the Bulgarian Psychoanalytic Group, the Bulgarian Mental Health Society, the Bulgarian Association of Social Workers, the Geneva Initiative for Psychiatry. He is a member of the Board of Directors of the United Netherlands Foundations and of the Association of Psychiatric Reformers, Geneva. Honorary Member of the Royal College of Psychiatry, London, UK. He received his education at the Higher Medical Institute, Sofia. He specialized at the Department of Psychiatry of the Medical Academy, at the Institute of Neurology, Psychiatry and Neurosurgery, at the Anthropos Institute in Athens, at the visiting training program in psychodrama Gabriele Wissmann-Brun.