Nationality : Bulgaria

Mr. Ivailo Kalfin

Fm. Dpt PM Bulgaria & Director, Economy International Relations Institute

Special advisor to EU Commissioner Günther H. Oettinger
Former Deputy Prime Minister Bulgaria

Moderator at Session/6: Maritime-Transportation-Infrastructures-HUBS, June 1st 2018

Mr. Ivailo Kalfin is Director of the Economy and International Relations Institute, Sofia and Senior lecturer at Varna University for Management.

He served as Deputy Prime Minister and Minister for Labour and Social Policy (2014-2016) and Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs (2005-2009) in the Government of Bulgaria.

Mr. Kalfin was member elected at the Bulgarian Parliament (1997-2016) and Member of the European Parliament (2009-2014). The main areas of activity of Ivailo Kalfin were foreign policy, budgets – at national and EU level and digital policy.

He was Vice-Chair of the EP Budgets Committee and EP’s rapporteur on the current Multiannual Financial Framework (2014-2020). He was also member of the High Level Group on the Own Resources in the EU budget, chaired by Mr. Mario Monti.

Currently he is a special advisor to EU Commissioner Günther H. Oettinger.

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