Minister of Energy
Temenuzhka Petkova has graduated the University of National and World Economy in Sofia, Bulgaria. She has obtained a MA in Accounting and Control. She has been trained in the field of the Internal Audit in the Public Sector in the Ministry of Finance of Ireland and the Great Britain, and in the field of the State Financial Inspection in the Ministry of Finance of Portugal.
From 1992 to 2000 Temenuzhka Petkova was assigned as an auditor and a financial expert in the Metropolitan Governance State Financial Control. Her professional career continued in the Public Financial Inspection Agency as a state internal auditor and a head of department. Since 2007, she has been assigned for a Director of the Organization and Implementation Inspection Activities Directorate in the Public Financial inspection Agency (PFIA). Within the period 2010 – 2013, she was a Director of the Public Financial inspection Agency.
Temenuzhka Petkova is an Interim Deputy Minister of Finance in Government of the Republic of Bulgaria with a Caretaker Prime Minister Prof. Georgi Bliznashki. As Deputy Minister of Finance Temenuzhka Petkova was responsible for the Taxation and Internal Control Directorates in the Ministry of Finance, the National Revenue Agency, the National Customs Agency, the Public Financial inspection Agency and the State Commission on Gambling.

Christian Egenhofer is Senior Fellow, Head of the Energy and Climate programme; Director of the Energy Climate House; Visiting Professor at the College of Europe in Bruges (Belgium) and Natolin (Poland), SciencesPo (Paris/France) and LUISS University (Rome/Italy).
Christian Egenhofer has more than 20 years' experience working with EU institutions on numerous policy areas. Over the last decade he has been specialising in EU energy and climate change policy, with a particular focus on the EU energy, climate and transport policies. He is currently Senior Fellow and Head of the Energy, Climate and Environment Programme at the Centre for European Policy Studies (CEPS), a Brussels-based think tank. Christian is also Visiting Professor at the College of Europe in Bruges (Belgium) and Natolin (Poland), SciencesPo (Paris/France) and LUISS University in Rome/Italy. From 1997 to 2010 he was Senior Research Fellow and Jean-Monnet Lecturer at the Centre for Energy, Petroleum and Mineral Law and Policy at the University of Dundee in Scotland/UK (part-time).
Christian Egenhofer holds a Master's degree in Administration from the University of Konstanz as well as a Public Law degree.

Areas of Expertise: 
Energy policy and regulation, Climate change policy

Education: 
Masters in International Administration, University of Konstanz; Public Law Degree

Languages: 
English, French, German

Garry Levesley is Executive Vice President and CEO Eastern Europe of ContourGlobal.

Garry Levesley has more than 20 years of experience as senior executive and operational manager in the international power and utilities industry.15 of those years were spent in countries of East Europe and the CIS and other emerging markets implementing best Western operating and commercial processes in privatized power plants and utilities. He has been with ContourGlobal since 2008 and is currently the Regional CEO for East Europe - a region where many of the company’s most significant power plants and projects are located. Prior to becoming the regional CEO Mr. Levesley was the Chief Operating Officer of the company, responsible for all power plant operations globally. Before joining ContourGlobal Mr. Levesley was the Chief Operating Officer for The Donbass Fuel & Energy Co. (DTEK), a large vertically integrated energy group based in Ukraine. Prior to DTEK Mr. Levesley served for 12 years at the AES Corporation where he was a Vice President, his responsibilities included management of multiple power plants across five countries totaling several thousand Megawatts.

Mr. Levesley is a Certified Chief Marine Engineer and has a Bachelor of Science degree from the Open University (UK).

Garry K. Levesley was born in 1960 in Kingston upon Hull, UK. He is married and has 4 children.

Chairperson of the Parliamentary Energy Committee
Delian Dobrev was born in 1978 in Haskovo. In 2002 he received a degree in economics from the Wesleyan University, Middletown, Connecticut, USA. He specialized accounting and finance at the London School of Economics and Political Science (University of London).
Mr. Dobrev is an expert specialized in the management of European projects, financial and tax law. He began his career at KPMG consulting company in Toronto, Canada and Newton Finance Management Group - Sofia, Bulgaria. On his return to Bulgaria, Mr. Dobrev worked for the district government of Haskovo Region and as a project manager of EU funded projects at the Bulgarian Small and Medium Enterprises Promotion Agency, Haskovo Regional Court, Alliance for Regional Cooperation and Development, etc. Before his appointment as a deputy minister, he was a Member of Parliament, a member of the Budgeting and Finance committee and the committee on Economic Policy, Economy and Tourism with the Parliament, where he was elected Deputy Chairman.
Delyan Dobrev, MP with the parliamentary group of the Citizens for European Development of Bulgaria (CEDB) and Chairperson of the Parliamentary Energy Committee.

Country Manager for Bulgaria, the Czech Republic, and Slovakia, Europe and Central Asia
Antony (Tony) Thompson, a dual Irish and British national, is Country Manager for Bulgaria, the Czech Republic, and Slovakia. Mr. Thompson came to Bulgaria in August 2014 following four years working as Manager for Strategy and Operations at the Human Development Network, based in World Bank Group Headquarters in Washington, DC.
Tony Thompson joined the World Bank Group in 1992 as part of the Young Professional Program, working in the East Africa Human Development Department of the Middle East and North Africa Country Operations Department.
Since joining, Mr. Thompson has worked in several different capacities, including Operations Officer, Lead Financial Sector Specialist, Operations Advisor, and Sector Manager. Throughout his career in the World Bank he has worked extensively in financial sector, private sector development, and tax administration.
Mr. Thompson’s other areas of expertise include human development, health, HIV/AIDS prevention, and financial sector reforms.
He holds a Bachelor of Arts (Honors) from the University of Ulster and a Masters of Business Administration (Honors) with a specialization in Finance from the University of Chicago. Mr. Thompson is married with three children.

Dries works as Policy Manager at the European Climate Foundation in Brussels. Dries led the ECF’s flagship Roadmap 2050 project and now directs ECF’s activities on EU energy policy and the Energy Union. Previously, Dries worked at Apple, Inc. where he worked for five years in the EMEA Public Affairs department. He holds an M.A. in Contemporary History from the Catholic University of Brussels and Leuven, Belgium, and was awarded a post-graduate degree in International Relations from the Karl-Rüprecht University in Heidelberg, Germany. As a Belgian and native Dutch speaker, Dries also masters English and French and has a good level of German and Italian.

Research Fellow, European Energy Policy
Thomas Pellerin-Carlin is a research fellow at the Jacques Delors Institute, working on European energy policy and European defence policy. After an experience in a consultancy (Europroject, Italy, 2010) et within the French Army (13^th Mountain Infantry Regiment, France, 2011), Thomas joins the French Administration (General Secretariat for European Affairs, France, 2012) before becoming Academic Assistant (College of Europe, Belgium, 2013-2015), and Research Assistant of the European Energy Policy Chair (College of Europe, Belgium, 2014-2015). He also took part in the SPECQUE: Euro-Canadian European Parliament Simulation (2010-2015) of which he was Executive Vice-President (2013-2014). Thomas is a graduate of the College of Europe’s Master in European Political and Administrative Studies, Bruges (2012-2013, Václav Havel Promotion) and of the Lille Institute of Political Studies (2007-2012, Promotion George Orwell). His main fields of interest are energy policy, climate policy and european defence policy. His working languages are English, French and Italian.

With SAP since 1996 (20 years) where I has several local, regional and global leadership positions in various sectors, particularly Energy that I am leading since 2005 for EMEA. 
I am currently the General Manager for Energy & Natural Resources for EMEA & MEE leading the Utilities, O&G, Chemicals and Mill & Mining Sector representing 50% of SAP Global ENR busienss and 30% of overall SAP EMEA & MEE business.
In 2003, I co-founder the Corporate In-Venturing SAP INSPIRE team where in-memory technology was identified as a breakthrough innovation leading to SAP HANA today.
Beside SAP, I participate in different Boards and Committees such as :
President of ESMIG (European Smart Metering and Smart Energy Association)
Chairman of ETP SmartGrids and Demand and Digital Energy Group
Governing Board member of REEEP (Renewable Energy)
Board Member of ARMINES (Ecoles des Mines de Paris)
I have been nominated in 2014 one of the Top 40 most influencing people in SmartGrids in Europe 
I have been nominated in 2015 among the Top 8 Global Smart Energy Elites
Having advised and co-founded several startups in my career, I am a strong supporter of innovation led by SMEs and agile startups who are focused on innovation and big things.

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Julian Popov is an ECF Fellow and has been an adviser to the ECF since 2008. As part of this role, he established a network of senior climate campaigners in eight new EU Member States, headed a project aimed at coaching editors of leading media on climate policy as well as a project seeking to raise policymakers’ attention to health and security implications of climate change. Julian currently leads the South East Europe Grid Initiative which catalyses high level energy policy cooperation among countries in wider South East Europe, including Turkey and the Western Balkans.
Julian is a former Minister of Environment of Bulgaria, the founding CEO and current Board Member of the New Bulgarian University, the former Chairman and current Board Member of the Bulgarian School of Politics and the co-founder of the Tunisian School of Politics. In 2014, he was appointed  as the Chairman of the Board of Directors of the Buildings Performance Institute Europe. He is Member of the Advisory Board of GridTech, Member of the Advisory Board of BETTER Project, Founding Member of the Governing Board of Sofia Platform, Member of the Steering Committee of Grantmakers East Forum and Honorary Treasurer and Director of the UK charity Friends of Bulgaria. Julian is the author of two books and writes regularly on current affairs and climate and energy policy.