Prof. Dr. Dimitar Dimitrov is the New Rector of UNWE

Prof. Dr. Dimitar Dimitrov is the new Rector of UNWE elected by the UNWE General Assembly for a mandate of four years - from 2019 to 2023.

Prof. Stattev wished Prof. Dimitrov to manage the university as successfully as he has been managing the Department and the Faculty.

Before voting the four candidates nominated for rector`s position – Prof. Dr. Valentin Goev, Prof. Dr. Dimitar Dimitrov, Assoc. Prof. D.Sc. Jivko Draganov and Prof. D.Sc. Simeon Jelev /in the picture below/ presented their concepts and answered the questions by the General Assembly delegates.

In the second round Prof. Dimitrov was elected with 160 votes of the General Assembly members. His opponent Prof. Goev had 125 votes.

Before the elections the General Assembly accepted the report for 2019 by the hitherto Rector Prof. D.Sc./Econ./ Statty Stattev and his report for the mandate 2015-2019 as well as the reports for the work of the Control Council for 2019 and for the mandate 2015-2019 presented by its hitherto Chairperson Prof. Dr. Violeta Tsakova.

Prof. Stattev outlined the high assessments of the university by the institutional and programme accreditations, achievements in the academic and scientific research work, electronization, relations with the business, etc. He expressed his thankfulness to the Vice-Rectors and Academic Council members, Student Council, syndicates, all members of academic community.

“UNWE is my cause and my destiny for 44 years. I would like to assure that it will always be like that. I wish the new academic leadership a will, courage and success. I wish all the members of our big, authoritative, influential and united academic family lots of health, prosperity and fruitful work”, declared Prof. Stattev.

”I would like to express my personal thankfulness to Prof. Stattev for the great joint work over the last 10 months. Due to the constant communication the Student Council and the Rector`s leadership worked together in sync leading constructive conversations about the implementation of successful policies for the UNWE development”, declared the Chairman of the Student Council Angel Stoykov. He outlined that “over the years Rector`s leadership due to its hard and permanent work had succeeded to build up an image of UNWE as a leading university not only in the country but also at European level”.

The General Assembly elected Prof. Dr. Blagoy Kolev as Academic Ombudsman /in the picture below/.

Prof. Dr. Lalko Dulevsky was reelected as Chairman of the General Assembly /in the picture below/.

The new Chairperson of the Control Council is Prof. Dr. Daniela Feschiyan /in the picture below/.