Alexander Bozhkov

Aleksandar Dimov Boschkow (also Alexandar Dimov Bozhkov written, scientific transliteration Aleksandär Božkov; Bulgarian Александър Димов Божков; born August 9, 1951 in Sofia, Bulgaria; † August 23, 2009 ) was a Bulgarian politician, economist and journalist. He initiated the privatization of the Bulgarian economy, and their reorientation of socialist planned economy to a market economy, for which he is still known by the Bulgarian Communists and Socialists of contradictory politician of the Bulgarian change from communism to democracy.

After attending a U.S. college in Baghdad (Iraq), he studied until 1974 mechanical engineering at the Technical University of Sofia. He worked until 1993 in the field of urban planning.

1992/93 he was Supervisory Board Chairman of privatization Agency. From 1994 to 1997, he belonged as a deputy of the conservative party Union of the democratic forces on the at Bulgarian Parliament. From 1997 to 1999 he was Minister of Economic Affairs and Deputy Prime Minister Stefan Sofijanski and Ivan Kostov, and to 2000 Bulgarian negotiator for EU accession talks.

2000 he founded the Center for Economic Development, the head he was also. In addition, Boschkow was active as a round radio Moderator at the radio station Darik radio. A in 2004 imposed three -year suspended sentence because of alleged enrichment in a privatization case was repealed after a reasonable revision procedure. Most recently, he was suffering from cancer.