Nikolay Vasilev
Nikolay Vassilev | |
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| Born | 28 November 1969 Varna, Bulgaria |
| Profession | Politician, Economist |
Nikolay Vassilev Vassilev (Template:Lang-bg) (born 28 November 1969) is a Bulgarian politician and economist, who has been part of two governments of Bulgaria.[1]
Vasilev is a former member of National Movement for Stability and Progress and served as deputy prime minister and Minister of the Economy (2001-2003), vice-prime minister and Minister of Transport and Communications (2003-2005) and Minister of State Administration and Administrative Reform (2005-2009).[2][3]
Since 2009, Vassilev is managing partner at Expat Capital - with its licensed wholly owned subsidiary Expat Asset Management, it is one of the largest independent asset management companies in Bulgaria. Expat manages hundreds of individual investment portfolios, 3 mutual funds with global focus, and a family of ETFs tracking the performance of stock indices from the CEE region.
Previously, Vassilev was senior vice president at Lazard Capital Markets – London (2000-2001), and associate director at UBS (UBS Warburg Dillon Read) in the Tokyo, New York, and London offices (1996-2000), working in the area of equities and emerging markets. He was also a tax adviser at Coopers & Lybrand in Budapest, Hungary (1993-1994).
Vassilev holds a Master of Arts degree in international economics and finance from Brandeis University, US (1997) with an exchange program at Keio University (Tokyo, Japan), as well as two bachelor's degrees from the State University of New York at Oswego, USA (1995) and the Budapest University of Economic Sciences, Hungary (1994), and has been a Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA) charterholder since 1999. He speaks English, Hungarian, and Russian and has basic knowledge of French, German, and Japanese.
Currently, Vassilev is a member of the board of the Bulgarian CFA Association.
He is the author of three books – “Energy” (2009), “Menu for Reformers” (2014), and “Career or Not” (2018). Vassilev is married and has two daughters.
References
- ^ "Политически портрет на Николай Василев" (in Bulgarian). omda.bg. Retrieved October 10, 2014.
- ^ "Профил на Николай Василев" (in Bulgarian). personi.dir.bg. Archived from the original on October 16, 2014. Retrieved October 10, 2014.
- ^ "Блестящи CV-та и казионни биографии" (in Bulgarian). capital.bg. July 28, 2001. Retrieved October 10, 2014.
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