Julian Popov

Julian Popov is a former Bulgarian Minister for the Environment, a Fellow of the European Climate Foundation and Chairman of the Building Performance Institute Europe. He is a Founding Member of the Governing Board of the Sofia Platform and was the founding Vice-Chancellor and a current member of the Board of the New Bulgarian University, one of the top 3 universities in Bulgaria (13,000 students), former Chairman of the Bulgarian School of Politics (working with senior politicians and civil society leaders from South East Europe, the Western Balkans and North Africa). He co-founded the Tunisian School of Politics (established following the Arab Spring) in cooperation with the Council of Europe and the Dutch and Finnish Governments. Julian is author of two books and co-author of another two and has published a large number of articles on EU environmental, energy and climate policies, EU enlargement and sustainable development in leading international media (the Financial Times, the Independent, the BBC, the Huffington Post, Al Jazeera, Gazeta Wyborcha, the EU Observer, European Voice and others).