Simeon Djankov, Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Finance, Bulgaria
Simeon Djankov Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Finance, Bulgaria has officialy confirmed his participation as speaker at the 5th edition of Forum Invest Energy 2010 to be held on 22nd of November in London.
Simeon Djankov is a Bulgarian economist, who currently serves as Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Finance in Bulgaria.
Prior to his cabinet appointment, Minister Djankov was the chief economist of the finance and private sector vice-presidency of the World Bank. In his fourteen years at the World Bank, he worked on regional trade agreements in North Africa, enterprise restructuring and privatization in transition economies, corporate governance in East Asia, and regulatory reforms around the world.
In 1997, he participated in a World Bank enterprise restructuring project in Georgia. Since 2004, after the Rose Revolution, he has visited Georgia frequently and worked with the government on reforming the business environment. He is also known as the creator of the Doing Business series, the top-selling publication of the World Bank Group.
Simeon Djankov was a principal author of the World Development Report 2002. He holds a PhD in economics from the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor and has published over 70 articles in academic journals, including in the Quarterly Jurnal of Economics, Journal of Political Economy, American Economic Review, Journal of Finance, Journal of Financial Economics, Journal of Economic Growth. He is ranked among the 100 Most Cited Economists in the world according to IDEAS/RePEc.
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