Head of Mission

head of mission

H.E. Mr. Iassen Tomov

Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Republic of Bulgaria to the Lebanese Republic

 

Date of birth: 28 June 1972.

Married, three children.

 

29 August 2023 - Ambassador to Beirut, Lebanese Republic.

September 2022 – August 2023 - Head of Department Europe-I, Directorate for Bilateral European Cooperation, MFA.

September 2018 – August 2022 - Political Officer for Disarmament and Non-Proliferation and CERN, Permanent Mission of the Republic of Bulgaria to the UN and other IO in Geneva.

August 2016 - August 2018 - Export Control Officer, Department for Arms Control and Non-Proliferation, Security Policy Directorate, MFA.

July 2014 - July 2016 - Political Affairs Officer, Deputy Head of Consular Affairs (occasionally), Embassy of the Republic of Bulgaria in Tbilisi, Republic of Georgia.

July 2012 - July 2014 - Political Affairs Officer, Head of Consular Affairs, Head of Finance and Administration Office, Embassy of the Republic of Bulgaria in Baku, Republic of Azerbaijan.

September 2009 - June 2012 - Export Control Officer, Department for Arms Control and Non-Proliferation, Security Policy Directorate, MFA.

September 2005 - August 2009 - Political Affairs Officer, Permanent Mission of the Republic of Bulgaria to the UN and other International Organizations in Vienna, Republic of Austria.

September 2003 - August 2005 - Export Control Officer, Department for Arms Control and Non-Proliferation, NATO and International Security Directorate, MFA. 

January 2000 - October 2000 - Political Affairs Officer for the Baltic States, European States Directorate, MFA, Sofia.

EDUCATION and TRAINING:

October - December 2004 - Alumni, “Young Leaders and International Security”, George C. Marshall European Centre for Security Studies, Garmisch Partenkirchen, Federal Republic of Germany.

September 2001 - March 2002 - International Fellowship Programme at the German Parliament (Internationale Parlamentspraktika beim Deutschen Bundestag).

October 2000 - August 2001 - Post Graduate Study in “European Studies” (Master’s degree), Europa Kolleg e.V. Institute, University of Hamburg, Federal Republic of Germany. 

March - December 1999 - Regular Military Service.

May 1997 - March 1999 - Post Graduate Study in Political Sciences (Magister Artium), Institute for Political Sciences, University of Hamburg, Federal Republic of Germany.

October 1992 - July 1996 - Graduation in International Relations, University for National and World Economy, Sofia, Republic of Bulgaria.

LANGUAGES: English, German, Russian.

Mother tongue: Bulgarian.

 

 

September 2023