Dragomir Yordanov

Yordanov was born in Sofia on 28 September 1967.^[1] He graduated from Sofia French Language School and Sofia University St. Kliment Ohridski with a master's degree in law.^[1]

Yordanov was a junior judge and then a criminal judge in the Sofia District Court from 1994 to 1999.^[1][2] Then he worked as the executive director of the Magistrate Training Centre from 1999 to 2004.^[2] He was the deputy director and programme director of the National Institute of Justice from 2004 to 2011.^[2] In addition, he worked as a criminal judge in Kosovo as part of the European Union Rule of Law Mission from 2009 to 2010.^[1] Next Yordanov served as the director of the National Institute of Justice from 2011 to March 2013.^[2] He was appointed justice minister to the caretaker government led by prime minister Marin Raykov on 12 March 2013.^[3] Yordanov was replaced by Zinaida Zlatanova in the post on 29 May 2013.^[4]