Todor Tagarev
Bulgarian military expert
Todor Dimitrov Tagarev (Bulgarian: Тодор Димитров Тагарев; born 18 April 1960) is a Bulgarian politician who served as Minister of Defense in 2013 and from 2023 to 2024. A political independent, he is a military expert with widely recognised academic credentials.
Early life and education
Todor Tagarev was born in Stamboliyski on 18 April 1960. He graduated from the Kiril Popov Mathematics school in Plovdiv, after which he obtained an Engineer's degree in telemechanics from the Georgi Benkovski Higher Airforce Institute in Dolna Mitropoliya. He then proceeded to defend a dissertation at the Zhukovsky Air Force Engineering Academy in Moscow and at the Air Command and Staff College in the USA.
Professional career
From 1982 to 1986, Tagarev served as an Air Weapons Officer with the Twenty-fifth Fighter-Bomber Regiment of the Air Force of Bulgaria at Cheshnegirovo.
He was a lecturer at the Georgi Benkovski Airforce Institute from 1989 to 1992. From 1994 to 1998 he was a research worker at the Institute of Management and Systems Research and the Institute of Space Research of the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, where he continued to work as a senior research worker from 2002 to 2004.
From 1999 to 2001 he was the director of the Defence Planning Directorate and the Armaments Policy Directorate in the Ministry of Defense.
From 2004 to 2008 he was the head of the Department of Defense Management at the Georgi Rakovski Military Academy.
From 2005 to 2008 Todor Tagarev was a member of the NATO Research and Technology Board and a national representative in its Systems Analysis and Research Panel.
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