TOTYU  MLADENOV, Dipl. Eng.

MINISTER

Totyu Mladenov, a graduate engineer, was born on 19 June 1964 in Vratsa. He graduated from the Higher Institute of Architecture and Construction in Sofia with a major in Water Supply and Sewerage Systems. He has completed several specialisations in the US, Poland, Hungary, France, Belgium, Greece, Argentine and Chile in the field of pension insurance systems, insurance against work accidents and occupational diseases, unemployment benefits, the labour market, professional training and retraining, and skills development. Fluent in Russian and English, he is married and has one child. 

In the period 1990-1991 he worked in a construction company in his native town Vratsa and in the autumn of 1991 joined the Regional Trade Union Council of Labour Confederation Podkrepa as a coordinator for Vratsa. In 1992 he was elected chairman of the Council. In 1995 he was appointed Confederate Secretary for Information Policy of Labour Confederation Podkrepa and in 2002 accepted the appointment of Executive Director of Executive Agency General Labour Inspection Service. At the local elections in 2007 he was elected Mayor of Vratsa.