VectMag community welcomes Prof. Dr. Ivan Todorov South-West University Bulgaria, as the editorial committee member.
Prof. Dr. Ivan Todorov
Specialization: Economics and Finance
Ivan Todorov was born on 27 January 1977 in the town of Blagoevgrad, Bulgaria. He holds a Bachelor’s Degree in International Economic Relations from the University of National and World Economy in Sofia, a Master’s Degree in Finance from the South-West University “Neofit Rilski” in Blagoevgrad and a PhD in Finance from the Economic Research Institute of the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences in Sofia. Ivan Todorov has worked also as a marketing expert, an accountant, an interpreter and a teacher in English. In September 2008 he won a job contest and became an Assistant Professor in Finance at the Faculty of Economics of the South-West University “Neofit Rilski” in Blagoevgrad. In February 2012 Ivan Todorov obtained his Doctoral Degree in Finance from the Economic Research Institute of the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences in Sofia by defending a dissertation entitled “Macrofinancial Specificity of the Integration of Bulgaria in the European Union” and supervised by Professor Doctor of Economic Sciences Garabed Minassian. In September 2013 he won a job contest for the position of a Chief Assistant Professor at the Department of Finance and Auditing at the Faculty of Economics of the South-West University “Neofit Rilski” in Blagoevgrad. The scientific interests of Chief Assistant Professor Dr. Ivan Todorov are in the areas of Macroeconomics, European Economic Integration, Business Cycle Synchronization, and Optimum Currency Area Theory; real, nominal and structural convergence of the New Member States in the European Union with the Euro Area and so on. He lectures on Macroeconomics, Financial Planning, Comparative Economic Systems, Geo-economics, Transnational Corporations and Finance of Global Corporations at the South-West University “Neofit Rilski” in Blagoevgrad. Chief Assistant Professor Dr. Ivan Todorov has gained international teaching experience on the Erasmus Programme by providing lectures in Macroeconomics (in English) at the Technical University in Chemnitz, Germany. He has publications in Bulgarian and in English in reputable scientific blind-peer reviewed journals in Bulgaria and abroad (see the enclosed List of Publications). Chief Assistant Professor Dr. Ivan Todorov is a Personal member of the European Money and Finance Forum (SUERF), the Athens Institute for Education and Research (ATINER), the Union of Economists in Bulgaria and the Union of scientists in Bulgaria. Chief Assistant Professor Dr. Ivan Todorov is a Member of the Editorial Boards of the International Journal of Management, Economics and Social Sciences, ISSN 2304–1366 and the Scholedge International Journal of Business Policy & Governance (ISSN: 2394-3351). He is also on the Scientific Council of the Polish scientific journal „Torun International Studies”, eISSN: 2391-7601. Chief Assistant Professor Dr. Ivan Todorov has reviewed the papers “Euro Area Scenarios and their Economic Consequences for Slovenia and Serbia”, published in The Managing Global 2 Transitions: International Research Journal, 11(4):323–351, ISSN 1854-6935, "The cognition of the civil servants and citizens concerning policy resource allocation in Kaohsiung city in Taiwan", published in The International Journal of Management, Economics and Social Sciences 2014, Vol. 3(3), pp. 144–163, ”Social indicators and the measure of the quality of life” published in Torun International Studies, No. 1 (7) 2014, pp. 5–13, eISSN: 2391-7601 and „Happiness and House Prices in Canada: 2009-2013“, published in The International Journal of Management, Economics and Social Sciences 2016, Vol. 5(2), pp. 57–86. He has participated in a number of national and international projects such as “LOcal products Festivals and Tourism development in cross-border cooperation Greece-Bulgaria” (Project LOFT), Subsidy contract B2.12.03/03.06.2-13, ref. № 2577, financed by the European Territorial Co-operation Operational Programme "Greece-Bulgaria 2007-2013", Project „Econometric analysis of the problems of Economic Growth, Disparity and Poverty” under Regulation No. 9 in 2014 etc. Chief Assistant Professor Dr. Ivan Krumov Todorov has excellent English language skills (he scored 267 out of maximum 300 points on the Computer-Based TOEFL in 2003). He actively applies the techniques of Econometric analysis in his research working with the Programs SPSS and EViews. He passed the online courses „Econometrics: Methods and Applications” of the Erasmus University Rotterdam with a final grade of 94.2% and „The Power of Macroeconomics: Economic Principles in the Real World” of University of California, Irvine with a final grade of 97.6%.
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