Grozdan Karadzhov

Grozdan Karadzhov
Гроздан Караджов
Official portrait, 2023
Deputy Prime Minister of Bulgaria[a]
Incumbent
Assumed office
16 January 2025
Prime MinisterRosen Zhelyazkov
Preceded byLyudmila Petkova
In office
13 December 2021 – 2 August 2022
Prime MinisterKiril Petkov
Preceded byGalab Donev[b]
Succeeded byAtanas Pekanov[c]
Minister of Transport and Communications
Incumbent
Assumed office
16 January 2025
Prime MinisterRosen Zhelyazkov
Preceded byKrasimira Stoyanova
Minister of Regional Development
and Public Works
In office
13 December 2021 – 2 August 2022
Prime MinisterKiril Petkov
Preceded byVioleta Komitova
Succeeded byIvan Shishkov
Member of the National Assembly
In office
12 April 2023 – 19 June 2024
Constituency16th MMC - Plovdiv
In office
27 October 2014 – 26 January 2017
Constituency24th MMC - Sofia
Personal details
Born
Grozdan Spasov Karadzhov

(1966-12-14) 14 December 1966 (age 58)
Stara Zagora, PR Bulgaria
Political partyITN (since 2021)
Other political
affiliations		Reformist Bloc (2014–2017)
Children4
Alma materSofia University
Occupation
  • Politician
  • lawyer

Grozdan Spasov Karadzhov (Bulgarian: Гроздан Спасов Караджов, born 14 December 1966) is a Bulgarian politician who served as Deputy Prime Minister from 2021 to 2022. A member of the ITN party, he also served as Minister of Regional Development from 2021 to 2022. Karadzhov was also a Member of the National Assembly from 2014 to 2017 and from 2023 to 2024.[1][2]

Biography

He was born 14 December 1966 in Stara Zagora. He graduated from the First English Language High School in Sofia and majored in Law at Sofia University. He specialised in business management in telecommunications when studying in Japan.

He was the chair of the Independent Student Society at the Faculty of Law at Sofia University in the 1990s. He was also a co-founder and national coordinator of the Bulgarian Association for Fair Elections. He was the program coordinator, general secretary and program director of the Open Society - Sofia.

In 1997 he became General Secretary of the Committee on Posts and Telecommunications. During Ivan Kostov's government he was Secretary General of the Ministry of Transport. Until 2004 he was a representative of the state in the management of BTC.

He was a member of the Supervisory Board of the Bulgarian Post Bank. After the fall of Ivan Kostov's cabinet, Karadjov took over the management of the Democracy Party Foundation until 2004.

In the parliamentary elections in 2014 he was elected a Member of Parliament in 43 National Assembly from the list of the Republic of Bulgaria in 24 MIR Sofia. Between 27 November 2014 and 9 December 2015, he chaired the Parliamentary Committee on Transport, Information Technology and Communications.

In August 2021 he was nominated for Minister of Transport, Information Technology and Communications in the failed cabinet with a mandate from the party "There is such a people" and Prime Minister Plamen Nikolov.

After the formation of the Petkov Government following the November 2021 Bulgarian Legislative Election, he was Minister of Regional Development and Public Works and deputy Prime Minister.[3][4]

Karadzhov is married, with 4 kids.

References

  1. ^ parliament.bg. "Parliament.bg". www.parliament.bg (in Bulgarian). Retrieved 2021-12-18.
  2. ^ "Grozdan Karadjov - Deputy Prime Minister for Regional Development and Public Works and Minister of Regional Development and Public Works". gov.bg. Retrieved 2021-12-18.
  3. ^ България, Булевард (2021-08-03). "Кой е Гроздан Караджов - кандидатът, предложен от ИТН за министър на транспорта". boulevardbulgaria.bg (in Bulgarian). Retrieved 2021-12-18.
  4. ^ "Кой е Гроздан Караджов, новият министър на регионалното развитие". www.actualno.com (in Bulgarian). Retrieved 2021-12-18.
  1. ^ Serving alongside Tomislav Donchev and Atanas Zafirov since 2025. Served alongside Korneliya Ninova, Asen Vasilev, Borislav Sandov and Kalina Konstantinova from 2021 to 2022.
  2. ^ Donev, alongside Boyko Rashkov and Atanas Pekanov
  3. ^ Pekanov, alongside Ivan Demerdzhiev, Lazar Lazarov and Hristo Alexiev