About IME - Boards

IME has a Board, an Internal Auditor, and International Advisory Board. IME members of the Board and International Advisory Board are volunteers.

Members of the Board are:
Andrei Evtimov, President, Cresta Consulting and Executive Director of Doverie Privarization Fund; Frank Bauer, President and CEO, Bulgarian American Enterprise Fund; George Zakhariev, President, BITEX; Levon Hamparzumian, Deputy Minister of Economy, former Director, Earnst&Young AFA, Bulgaria; Martin Zaimov, Deputy-Governor of BNB, former Deputy Minister of Trade; Prof. Ilian Michov, INSEAD.

In previous years, members of the Board who helped IME acquire sustainability were:
Emil Hirsev, Ph.D., President Hirsev & Company, former Deputy governor of the BNB; Reneta Indjova, Ph.D., former Prime Minister of Bulgaria; John Dimi Panitza, President, Free and Democratic Bulgaria Foundation, former Managing Director of Readers' Digest; Ognian Pishev, President, Vitosha Software and Communication, former Ambassador to USA; Galina Dimitrova, Economist, Bulgarian Investment Bank; Luibomir Christov, Advisor to the Executive Director, World Bank, former Chief Economist of the Bulgarian National Bank; Mariana Todorova, Economist, EDI of the World Bank; Krasimir Kanev, former Chief Economist, NEC.

IME Advisory Board members are:
Chairperson is the Honorable Margot E. Machol, President, Chesapeake Associates; Vice Chairman: Dr. Richard Rahn, President, NOVECON; Finance Committee Chairman: The Honorable Roderick Hills, Partner, Mudge Rose Guthrie Alexander & Ferdon; Philippe Adhemar, Counseiller Maitre Cour des Comptes; The Honorable Anne Brunsdale, Commissioner, International Trade Commission; The Honorable Charles H. Dallara, Managing Director, Institute of International Finance, Inc.; The Honorable Christopher DeMuth, President, The American Enterprise Institute; The Honorable Wendy Lee Gramm, Director Reforming Government Study Series; Professor Dr. Joachim Hentze, Brawnschweig Universitaet; The Honorable Arlene Holen, Chairman, Federal Mine Safety & Health Review Commission; The Honorable Kenneth Juster, Partner, Arnold & Porter; Dr. Allan Meltzer, Visiting Scholar, American Enterprise Institute; The Honorable James C. Miller, Chairman, Citizens for a Sound Economy; The Honorable Thomas Gale Moore, Senior Fellow, The Hoover Institution; The Honorable Michael J. Mussa, Director of Research, International Monetary Fund; The Honorable William Niskanen, Chairman, CATO Institute; Dr. John Raisian, Director The Hoover Institution; The Honorable Beryl W. Sprinkel, President, B.W. Sprinkel Economics; Sir Alan Walters, Vice Chairman, AIG Trading Corporation.

IME Auditor is Ernst & Young AFA