Curriculum Vitae

Latchezar Bogdanov, 23

• Bulgarian citizenship, born and residing in Sofia;
• Marital status: single

I.M.E. Consult Ltd., Sofia 1997-ongoing

Position: consultant and accountant manager

Activities: Research on request by investment banks, organizing

business trips and meetings of foreign companies to Bulgaria;

Accounting services and advice to non-profit organizations in Bulgaria

Institute for Market Economics, Sofia 1995-ongoing

Position: Researcher and coordinator business environment programs

Activities: Research on advocacy and transparent policies,

macroeconomic indicators, fiscal policies, encouragement

of private sector through tax reform.

Participated in CS First Boston Investor’s Guide to Bulgaria -

Chapters on Taxation and Property Rights and Monetary

History of Bulgaria.

Projects: “Establishment of transparent procedures of

advocacy in business”, “Strengthening Bulgarian Business Associations”

“Taxation and environment for small and medium

size enterprises”, “Needs for Tax Deregulation in CEE:

Bulgaria, Poland, Slovakia”,

“Regulations Impact Assessment”, “Bulgaria Study of

Administrative Barriers to Investment”.

Education:

M.Sc. in accounting and financial control,

University for National and World Economy, Sofia 1994 - 1999

Major field: Accounting and Financial Control

Additional: Taxation, Financial Analysis, Trade Law

Sofia School of Mathematics and Computer Science 1990 - 1994

International conference “Tax administration: Institution building in transition - tax evasion, compliance costs and taxpayers’ rights” (author), Zagreb, June 1999

International conference “Facing the future: Balkans in 2010”, Sofia, May 1999

International conference "Foreign Investments, Transparency, Economic Growth", (author)

Sofia, October 1998

International conference “Deregulation of tax systems in CEE”, Bratislava, Slovakia (co-author), Bratislava, March 1998

International conference “The importance of the informal economy in transition countries”, (co-author), Zagreb, May 1997

Evaluation of Post-Privatization Control in Bulgaria, (co-author), IME/CASE, Sofia, March 2000

Administrative Barriers to Investment in Bulgaria, Foreign Investment Advisory Service, February 2000.

Competitive Advantages of Regions, (co-author), IME and Open Society Publishing House - Sofia, Sofia, 1999

Bulgarian Human Development Report, (co-author, the chapter on fiscal decentralization), UNDP, Sofia, 1999

Preliminary regulations’ impact assessment (with Georgi Ganev), Capital Weekly, 5-11 June, 1999

Transparency of Tax Regulations and Cost of Compliance, Financijska Praksa, 4-5/99, Zagreb (in Croatian)

Reviews of business environment (February-May, 1999), published in Pari Daily

Bulgarian Country Review (with Werner Varga), Creditanstalt Central European Quarterly II/98

“Deregulation of tax systems in CEE: Bulgaria, Poland, Slovakia”, IME Sofia, 1998

Peculiarities of Bulgarian Informal Sector, (co-author with Krassen Stanchev), Financijska Praksa, 5-6/97, Zagreb (in Croatian)

Bulgarian Human Development Report, (co-author, the chapter on taxation), UNDP, Sofia, 1998

Peculiarities of Bulgarian Informal Sector, (co-author with Krassen Stanchev), Financijska Praksa, 5-6/97, Zagreb (in Croatian)

Bulgaria in Its Regional Context: An Analysis of Risk Scenarios (co-author, Part 3), UNDP, Sofia, 1997

What a currency board can and what can not do, Economica monthly magazine, 1997, vol. 3

Austrian economics, cost-benefit analysis

QuarkXPress, Windows; driving license

Fluent in English, Russian; basic knowledge: German

Bridge, swimming