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2003 – 2007: Chairperson of the Election Committee of the City of Sofia for the election of the local authoriries in Sofia 2001: Chairperson of the Election Committee of the City of Sofia for the election of the President of the Republic of Bulgaria Since 2000: Managing partner of Business Banking Corporate Environmental Legal Consultancy (BBCELC) - Niesar, Diamond and Todorova Law Offices. Since 1998: Arbitrator by the Bulgarian Industrial Association. 1998: Member of the privatization group of United Bank of Switzerland (UBS); 1997: Mrs. Todorova joined the partners of Niesar & Diamond LLP San Francisco in establishment of the first Bulgarian American Law Affiliates in Sofia. 1996 - 1998: Member of the Commission for promotion of graduate students by the Ministry of Justice; 1996: Appointed by NAUTA DUTILH - Brussels as the Bulgarian counselor in a project for legal assistance to The Commission For Protection of Competition of the Republic of Bulgaria under the EU – PHARE program; 1995 – 2000: Member of the National Commission of Bulgarian Red Cross Charity Fund 1995: USAID individual training program, concentrating on business law in major US law firms Baker & McKenzie, Morrison & Foerster, Coudert Brothers 1995: Developing Leadership Skills For Supervisors – American Management Association, San Francisco 1990: Founding partner of LAW OFFICE TODOROVA Since 1972: Member of the Bulgarian Bar Association, Sofia City Bar 1970: LL.M. graduate of the Sofia University, School of Law. Membership of Professional Bodies: Since 1996: Liaison Officer to IBA Standing Committee on Human Rights; 1995-1998: member of the Supreme Council of Bulgarian Bar Association.Since; 1995-2005: Council member of the International Bar Association (IBA); 1992-1995: Country representative of the IBA; Since 2005: IBA, Country representative for Bulgaria; Since 1991: President of INTERADVOCAT Bar Association - a member of the IBA; Since 1991: member of the International Bar Association. Foreign Languages: English, German and Russian.
____________________________ Senior Partner Speaker: Tenth trough Twenty-Second International Symposium on Economic Crime – Cambridge 1992 – 2006 Speaker: First International Symposium on Economic Crime – Stockholm, Sweden 2004 Speaker and delegate at International Conferences on Money Laundering in London, UK, 1993 and 1994; in Lisbon, Portugal, 1996 Senior Fellow of the University of Florida Law School, 2004 Since 2000: partner with Business Banking Corporate Environmental Legal Consultancy (BBCELC) - Niesar, Diamond and Todorova Law Offices Since 1999: Member of the Bulgarian Bar Association, Sofia City Bar 1998-1999: Counsellor of Trade and Tourism in the Embassy of the Republic of Bulgaria in London, U.K., 1997 - Legal Consultant to the Bulgarian American Enterprise Fund, Bulgarian American Credit Bank and other institutions, NGO’s, trade and financial companies 1995-1997: Chief Legal Advisor and Head of Legal Department of BRI Bank 1992-1995: Legal Expert with Bulgarian National Bank (The Central Bank) 1977-1991: Chief Legal Advisor, Ministry of Foreign Trade and Tourism 1975: LL.M. graduate of the Sofia University, School of Law Membership of Professional Bodies: · Chair of the working group for the by-law regulation of the Bulgarian National Bank on against money laundering · Member, Working Group for the Law on Money Laundering – Ministry of Justice and the Bulgarian National Bank (The Central Bank) · Member of the Board of the Overseas Editors of the Journal of Financial Crime, Cambridge, U.K. · Member of the Advisory Board of the Journal of Money Laundering Control, London, U.K. · Consultant Editor in the International Corporate Law Bulletin, London, U.K. · Member of the Society for Advanced Legal Studies, London, U.K. · Member of the British – Bulgarian Law Society, London – Sofia · Member of the WORLD JURIST ASSOCIATION, Washington D.C., USA · Member, Professional Women’s Advisory Board of the American Biographical Institute – 2001 · Nominated WOMAN OF THE YEAR 2000, International Who’s Who of Professional and Business Women, American Biographical Institute Publications (4) in English in: · Journal of Financial Crime, University of London, UK; · Dickinson Journal of International Law, The Dickinson School of Law, USA Interventions at International Conferences: · Speaker at Tenth through Twenty Third International Symposium on Economic Crime, Cambridge, UK, 1992 through 2005, · Delegate and speaker at the First Symposium on Economic Crime in Stockholm, Sweden, 2003. Foreign Languages: English, Italian, Russian
____________________________ Since 2000: partner with Business Banking Corporate Environmental Legal Consultancy (BBCELC) - Niesar, Diamond and Todorova Law Offices, Since 2000 - permanently associated environmental lawyer at Milieu, Environmental Law Consultancy, Brussels Since 1995: Free-lance Environmental law consultant – over 20 assignments under World Bank, EBRD, United Nations Environmental Program, PHARE, USAID Projects in different environmental sectors and approximation with EU environmental law; legal advice to foreign and Bulgarian companies on environmental requirements for different activities, and in particular impact assessment and permitting procedures, environmental standards, etc. 1994: Associate Environmental Officer, UN Economic Commission for Europe, Environment and Human Settlements Division, Geneva 1993: Scholar's grant Environmental Law Institute, Washington, D.C., enrolled in the Institute's Roster of Environmental law experts 1992-94: Expert in the Legal Dept., Ministry of Environment, in charge of negotiating and implementing environmental conventions, approximation with EU law and drafting of national legislation 1980-81: Research grant at the Université de droit; d'économie et des sciences sociales, Paris V 1976-92: Senior research fellow, Head of International Law and International Organizations Dept., Bulgarian Academy of Science 1973-76: Post-graduate studies in Public International Law and International Relations, Institute of Foreign Policy, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, PhD in International Law and International Relations 1971 - LL.M. graduate of the Sofia University, School of Law. Membership of Professional Bodies: 2001: Member of the Bulgarian Association for the UN 1994: Member of the IUCN Environmental Law Commission, Bonn 1993: Member of the Legislative Task Force, Regional Environmental Centre for CEE, Budapest 1978: Bulgarian branch of the International Law Association, London Lecturing Activities: 1993-1997: Visiting Associate Professor in Environmental Law and Policy, Visiting Associate Professor in Environmental Law and Policy, Varna Technical University, Bulgarian-German Faculty on Environmental Technologies and other Bulgarian Universities.Publications:over 60 articles, studies, monographs and university text book; monograph in the Kluwer series International Encyclopaedia of Laws - Environmental Law. Bulgaria, 2001 Foreign Languages: Fluent in English, French, Russian; Polish, in Spanish – passive working knowledge.
____________________________ Since 2002: partner with Business Banking Corporate Environmental Legal Consultancy (BBCELC) – Niesar, Diamond and Todorova Law Offices 1993–2002: Attorney at Law and Legal Consultant to international, Bulgarian companies and joint ventures practicing: in forewarding and transportation, insurance and reinsurance and building societies 1976-1993: Legal Advisor to “SOMAT” AD (the biggest company for international shipping and transportation in Bulgaria) 1974 – LL.M. graduate of the Sofia University, School of Law Membership of Professional Bodies 1988 – 1996 – Head of Law Commission of the Transport Association in Bulgaria with participation in international conferences of the Law Commission of IRU concerning preparation of transport and shipping international conventions. Foreign Languages French, Russian
____________________________ Since 2002: partner with Business Banking Corporate Environmental Legal Consultancy (BBCELC) - Niesar, Diamond and Todorova Law Offices 2000–2002: Chairperson of the Bar Association in the town of Pernic 1992–1994: Chairperson of the Bar Association in the town of Pernic 1990 : Secretary General of the Supreme Council of the Bulgarian Bar Association 1987–1990: Chairperson of the Bar Association in the city of Pernic and Member of the Supreme Council of the Bulgarian Bar Association 1990 - 2002: A practicing Attorney at Law in the area of Civil Law and Civil procedure, family law, commercial law and real estate 1978 - LL.M. graduate of the Sofia University, School of Law Membership of Professional Bodies 1980 – member of the Bulgarian Bar Association - the city of Pernic Foreign Languages Russian
____________________________ Since 2002: Partner with Business Banking Corporate Legal Consultancy (BBCELC) – Niesar, Diamond and Todorova Law Offices 2002: Member of Bulgarian Chamber of Tourism Since 1993 – Practicing lawyer, Owner and Director of PRIMACONSULT Ltd, 1981 – 1993: Senior Legal Adviser with SOMAT (Head Office) and Manager Baghdad Bureau of SOMAT in Iraq and Head of Legal Claims & Insurance Department of SOMAT 1979 – 1981: Legal Adviser of TECHNOEXPORTSROY – Benghazi, Libya 1974 – 1978: Chief Legal Adviser in BALKANTOURIST, Sunny Beach Resort 1984: Post graduate specialization in Transport Law 1975: Post graduate specialization in Commercial Law 1973: LL.M. graduate of the Sofia University, School of Law Experience Numerous long term missions to Iraq, Iran, Syria, Kuwait, Libya etc. Foreign Languages English, Arabic, Russian
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