September 21 (BTA) - By order of caretaker Prime Minister
 Stefan Yanev, three new deputy ministers have been appointed,
the Cabinet's press service said on Tuesday.

      Iva Petrova has been appointed Deputy Minister of Energy.
In the period 2000-2009 she worked in the Ministry of Energy,
where in 2008 she reached the position of Director of Energy
Markets and Restructuring. She was responsible for the
management and monitoring of energy projects financed under
bilateral and multilateral programs, as well as for activities
in the field of creating efficiently functioning energy markets
and others. From February 2009 to the end of June 2010, she was
the Director of Projects and Investments at the Bulgarian Energy
 Holding. Petrova has also worked as an independent evaluator of
 project proposals. She is also a part-time assistant at the
Faculty of Economics at Sofia University. She has a master's
degree in Business Administration from Sofia University. She
also graduated from the University of Birmingham, UK and has a
number of specializations in Japan, Belgium, Great Britain. She
was a partner in ZBi Advisors Ltd. - a company specializing in
management consulting in energy. Fluent in English, speaks
Italian.

    Prof. Konstantin Hadjiivanov and Vanya Stoyneva are the two
new Deputy Ministers of Education and Science. By order of Prime
 Minister Stefan Yanev, Nelly Koseva and Evgenia Peeva-Kirova
were relieved of the post of Deputy Minister of Education and
Science.

   Prior to her appointment to the Ministry of Education and
Science, Vanya Stoyneva was Deputy Minister of Finance.

   Hadjiivanov is a professor at the Institute of General and
Inorganic Chemistry at the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences. In the
 period 2017-2021 he was Deputy Chairman of the Bulgarian
Academy of Sciences, and from 2021 he was an advisor to the
President of the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences. He has won many
Bulgarian and international awards. RY/DT

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