Lyubomir Ivanov (explorer)

Content sourced from Wikipedia, licensed under CC BY-SA 3.0.

Lyubomir Ivanov (Bulgarian: Любомир Иванов), born October 7, 1952, in Sofia, is a Bulgarian scientist, NGO activist, and Antarctic explorer.

Education and early achievements
He earned a Master of Science in mathematics from St. Kliment Ohridski University of Sofia in 1977 and a PhD from Sofia University in 1980, with a dissertation titled Iterative Operative Spaces. He won Bulgaria’s top mathematics prize, the Acad. Nikola Obreshkov Prize, in 1987.

Career and public work
In 1990 he became head of the Department of Mathematical Logic at the Institute of Mathematics and Informatics, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences. He helped found the Atlantic Club of Bulgaria and served as its chairman from 2001 to 2009. In 1994 he founded the Manfred Wörner Foundation to promote transatlantic cooperation and has been a member of the Streit Council Advisory Board in Washington, DC since 2006. He has also been the founding Chairman of the Antarctic Place-names Commission since 1994. He authored Bulgaria’s modern system for romanizing Cyrillic, used officially by the UN and by the US and UK.

Politics and international work
Ivanov participated in the 1990 Bulgarian Round Table Talks as a member of the UDF Coordinating Council. He served as a Member of Parliament from 1990 to 1991, chaired the Green Party parliamentary group, and helped draft the current Bulgarian Constitution. He also served as parliamentary secretary for the foreign affairs ministry.

Antarctic expeditions and honors
He has taken part in several Antarctic expeditions. In 2004 he joined the Tangra 2004 topographic expedition with Doychin Vasilev, a milestone noted by Discovery Channel, the Natural History Museum, the Royal Collection, and the British Antarctic Survey. He received the jubilee medal “30th Bulgarian Antarctic Expedition” from the Bulgarian Antarctic Institute for his active participation and for helping to build the St. Kliment Ohridski polar base.