Head of Mission
HEAD OF MISSION
GRIGOR KALINOV POROZHANOV, AMBASSADOR EXTRAORDINARY AND PLENIPOTENTIARY
Born 29.04.1976
- since 27 September 2023 Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Republic of Bulgaria to the Federal Republic of Germany
- Director of the UN and Global Affairs Directorate at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, July 2022 – July 2023
- Ambassador at Large on Counter-Terrorism at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, 2021-2022
- Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary to the People’s Republic of China, 2016-2021
- Director of the Foreign Economic Relations Directorate at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, 2013 - 2016
- Director of Science Directorate at the Ministry of Education, Youth and Science, 2012-2013
- Head of Economic and Trade Section, Embassy of Bulgaria in Athens, Greece, 2006-2011
- Graduated from the Law Faculty of the Aristotle University in Thessaloniki, Greece
- German Language High School in Bourgas, Bulgaria
- Languages: English, Greek, German, Russian, Turkish
- Married, father of two daughters
- Skipper and Scuba diver