Present position:
2006-  Ambassador to Bulgaria
2004-2006  Ambassador on Trafficking issues/Senior Adviser, Section for OSCE, Council of Europe and CFSP Affairs, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Oslo, Norway
Education:
1975-  MA, University of Oslo, Norway (Political Science, French, Spanish and English
2000-  Master of Management, Oslo School of Economics, Norway
Various leadership training
Previous posts:
2003-2004  Lecturer at Norwegian Defence College
2003-2000  Counsellor, Delegation to NATO, Brussels 
2000-1996  Senior Executive Officer, Department for Balkan Affairs, Ministry of foreign affairs. Oslo
1996-1994  Deputy Director, Norwegian Refugee Council, Oslo and Geneva,
1994-1992  Programme director of NARV in cooperation with UNHCR, Vietnam
1992-1980  Adviser, Head of Unit, Deputy Director General in Immigration Department, Ministry of Labour and Local Government, Oslo, Norway
1979-1977  Senior Executive Officer, Department of Training, Ministry of Administration, Oslo, Norway
1977-1975  Information Officer at State Loan Bank for Education, Oslo, Norway
Languages:  Norwegian, English, French, Spanish and some knowledge of German

Rosen Plevneliev graduated from what is now known as the Technical University of Sofia. In 1990, he established Iris International – the first Bulgarian construction company that was awarded ISO 9001 certificate. From 1991 to 1998 Mr. Plevneliev worked in Germany as a co-owner of the firm which later became a subcontractor of the German company Lindner. Since 1998 he was founder and manager of the subsidiaries of Lindner Bulgaria EOOD. He is member of the management board of CEIBG and manager of Business Park Sofia. In 2009, he took the post of Minister of Regional Development and Public Works of Bulgaria.

Mr. Julian Popov is a noted Bulgarian journalist, writer, philologist, and political analyst who has lived in London since 1994. Popov works as a consultant in institutional development, public relations, and educational policy. His clients include the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development, the European Commission, the British Open University, the European Climate Foundation, the European Association of Distance Learning Universities, among others.
Popov is the honorary secretary and treasurer of the British non-profit organization Friends of Bulgaria, as well as the chairman of the Board of Directors of the Bulgarian School of Politics and of the Managing Board of the Elizabeth Kostova Foundation. In 1990, he became Executive Director of the New Bulgarian University (NBU). He is also a founder and served briefly as Director of the NBU School of Management, established jointly with the Business School of the Open University (UK). Since 1995, Mr. Popov has been a Member of the Board of Trustees of the New Bulgarian University.

Martin Bursik is an ecologist. He graduated environmental studies at the Faculty of Natural Sciences of the Charles University in Prague in 1984. Between 2005-2009 he was chairing the Czech Green Party. In 2006 the Greens got 6,3 % and entered the Parliament. He became a vice-prime minister, minister for the environment (2007-2009) and a green deputy of the Czech Parliament (2006-2010). He had been an environment minister of the Czech Republic already before, in 1998 in an intermitent government.
During his first term at the ministry for the environment the government adopted the State Program for Support of Renewable Sources of Energy and Energy Savings and State Program for Nature Conservation. He signed the Aarhus Convention on Access to Information, Public Participation in Decision-making and Access to Justice in Environmental Matters in 1998.
During his second term an EU Operational Program Environment in the range of 5 bil. EUR was launched as well as the Green Investment Scheme (GIS) financed by selling the emission trading surplus AAUs in the range of 0,8 bil. EUR to be used for insulation of private housing and exchange of local coal boilers for renewable solar, biomass or geothermal heating. He implemented the Environmental Tax Reform in the Czech Republic which made biomass heating cheaper then coal firing. He persuaded the government to protect north Bohemian towns and municipalities from being destroyed due to the further surface brown coal mining. He negotiated modifying the EU Frame Waste Directive so that the illegal waste import to Central and East Europe will no more be possible. During the Czech Presidency in the first half of 2009 he represented the EU Council at the international climate negotiations with mayor economies of the United States of America, China, India, Canada, Japan, Russia, Australia, African states and others.
As a consultant he belonged to the core team of the Ministry for the Environment that prepared the Czech Feed in Tariff Act to support renewable electricity production. He's working as a consultant in the area of energy and environment.
He was an the activist of the Movement for Civic Liberty and member of the Vaclav Havels' Civic Forum after the Velvet Revolution in November 1989.

Alexandre Nedeltchev is the Institutional Relations Manager of Dalkia Bulgaria.
Born in Sofia in 1978, he emigrated in France at the age of four.
He graduated from different universities: Sociology (University of Paris V – Sorbonne), Political Sciences (Sciences Po Paris), Management of European projects (University of Cergy-Pontoise), European Affairs (College of Europe) and Ecole Nationale d’Administration (ENA).
He worked as project manager for two projects funded by the European Union (ACRINET / Culture 2000 and STRABON / Eumedis) and as a lobbyist at the European Parliament for the French National Institute for Agricultural Research (INRA). In 2006, he decided to come back in Bulgaria where he has been proposed a position at the French Embassy. In charge of the public seminars of the Embassy, he organized two cycles of lectures (more than 30 debates) in the field of European integration "Europe here and now" and Sustainable Development "Europe goes green" (in partnership with Gorichka).
Since the 1^st of November 2010, he is responsible of the institutional relations of Dalkia Bulgaria.