Reneta Indzhova

Reneta Ivanova Indschowa (also Reneta Ivanova Indzova written, Bulgarian Иванова Инджова; born July 6, 1953 in Nowa Zagora ) is a Bulgarian politician and former Prime Minister.

Study and career

Indschowa graduated in economics at the Karl Marx Institute of Economics in Sofia, where she graduated in 1975 with the graduation. Later, her promotion was followed for Philosophiae Doctor ( Ph.D.) in Political Economy.

In 1992 she was first employee of the agency for business development and economic programs. Subsequently, she was department director of the United Bulgarian Bank, before it was the Privatization Agency from 1992 to 1993 Member of the Supervisory Board and Executive Director.

In 1995, she worked as a visiting scientist for economic and administrative management ( Business and Administrative Management) at the Eisenhower Foundation in the United States. Between 1999 and 2001 she was living again in the United States. During this time she was at times also a consultant for Balkan policy of the former Republican presidential candidate George W. Bush.

Political career

Member of Parliament

Indschowa began her political career in 1990 after the collapse of the communist government of Todor Zhivkov. At first she was co-author of the Constitutive Act of 1990 the newly formed anti-communist Union of Democratic Forces ( Sajus na Demokratitschnite Sili ).

In 1990 she was elected as an MP in the National Assembly, where she represented the interests of SDS to 1992.

Prime Minister and presidential candidate

Following the resignation of Liuben Berov she was appointed by President Zhelev Schelju to incumbent Prime Minister on 17 October 1994. This office she handed after the election victory of the Socialist Party on 25 January 1995, Shan Widenov.

In November 1995, she ran for the office of mayor of Sofia, but lost it as third placed her party colleague Stefan Sofijanski. On 3 March 1997 she was co-founder of the movement of the United Political Reform Party, whose chairman was at the same time.

After her return from the U.S., it was on March 4, 2001 Member of the National Executive Council of the Democratic Alliance party and a short time later their chairpersons.

In the presidential elections of 11 November 2001, she ran with the support of the Movement for Rights and Freedoms for the Democratic Alliance Party. As the fourth- best candidate they scoring only 4.9 percent of the vote and thus different from after the first round of voting.