Ivan Kondov
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Ivan Kondov | |
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Иван Кондов | |
 Official portrait, 2023 | |
| Minister of Foreign Affairs | |
| In office 27 August 2024 – 16 January 2025 | |
| Prime Minister | Dimitar Glavchev |
| Preceded by | Dimitar Glavchev |
| Succeeded by | Georg Georgiev |
| In office 3 May 2023 – 6 June 2023 | |
| Prime Minister | Galab Donev |
| Preceded by | Nikolay Milkov |
| Succeeded by | Mariya Gabriel |
| Personal details | |
| Born | 10 August 1968 |
| Party | Independent |
| Alma mater | University of National and World Economy |
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Ivan Kondov (Bulgarian: Иван Кондов) is a Bulgarian politician and diplomat who served as Minister of Foreign Affairs from August 2024 to January 2025 and briefly in 2023.[1] A political independent, he previously served as Permanent Secretary of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs from 2021 to 2023 and Bulgarian Ambassador to Spain from 2017 to 2021.[2]
Kondov was born on 10 August 1968.[3] In 1994 he graduated from the University of National and World Economy with a degree in international relations, later also acquiring courses in international relations at the Diplomatic School of Spain and the Center for Security Policy Studies.[4] He started working in international relations in 1995, a year after graduating, as an expert in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.[5] He then worked in political affairs at the Embassy of Bulgaria, London, and afterward worked as an expert and member of the delegation of Bulgaria to NATO from 2001 to 2007.[3]
Career
Starting in 2017, he was the Bulgarian Ambassador to Spain.[2] During his ambassadorship, he worked to represent Bulgaria in the country when it had the presidency of the Council of the European Union.[6] He left Madrid in mid-December and officially announced his departure in January 2021.[6]