Daniel Mitov

Daniel Mitov
Daniel Mitov
Даниел Митов
	Official portrait, 2021
Member of the National Assembly
	Incumbent
	Assumed office ; 15 April 2021
Constituency	24th MMC - Sofia; (2021-2022); 3rd MMC - Varna; (2022-present)
Minister of Foreign Affairs
	In office; 6 August 2014 – 27 January 2017
Prime Minister	Georgi Bliznashki; Boyko Borissov
Preceded by	Kristian Vigenin
Succeeded by	Radi Naidenov
Personal details
Born	Daniel Pavlov Mitov; 4 December 1977 (age 46); Sofia, PR Bulgaria
Political party	GERB (since 2021)
Other political; affiliations	DSB (2006-2012); DBG (2012-2021)
Alma mater	Sofia University (BA); New Bulgarian University (MA)
Occupation	Politician; diplomat;

Daniel Pavlov Mitov (Bulgarian: Даниел Павлов Митов; born 4 December 1977) is a Bulgarian politician. He served as Minister of Foreign Affairs of Bulgaria from 2014 to 2017.

He became Minister of Foreign Affairs on August 6, 2014 in the cabinet of Georgi Bliznashki and remained in that post in the cabinet of Boyko Borisov from October 7, 2014.

Early life and education

Born in Sofia, Mitov received his higher education at the Sofia University.^[1] In addition to his native Bulgarian, he is fluent in English, Italian, and Russian.

Political career

Mitov with U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry in Brussels, 2 December 2014

In 2002, Mitov worked at the Political Academy for Central and Southeast Europe and in 2006 became a member of Bulgaria's Democracy Foundation. Following his succession there, he became a deputy chairman of the Democrats for a Strong Bulgaria party and since 2010 works at the National Democratic Institute with the delegates of North Africa and the Middle East.^[1]

Fight against terrorism

In a speech at the Israel Council on Foreign Relations in 2016, Mitov begins by calling terrorism the biggest issue of the Middle East.^[2] In his words, terrorism “regardless of how many resources we allocate to assisting the countries of origin and transit, the refugee flow and terrorist channels will not disappear as long as ISIS and similar actors exist on the ground". On that occasion, he noted that "the teachings of Islam could be directed toward civil activity instead of toward politicization, and consequently, radicalization". In order to help the Middle East with this dilemma, he suggested the importance of European support by explaining that aid should be given to countries that take in refugees and policies should be reinforced in quelling terrorism worldwide.