Nikolai Denkov

Nikolai Denkov
Nikolai Denkov
Николай Денков
	Official portrait, 2023
Prime Minister of Bulgaria
	In office; 6 June 2023 – 9 April 2024
President	Rumen Radev
Deputy	Mariya Gabriel
Preceded by	Galab Donev
Succeeded by	Dimitar Glavchev
Member of the National Assembly
	Incumbent
	Assumed office ; 9 April 2024
Constituency	30th MMC – Shumen
	In office; 19 October 2022 – 6 June 2023
Constituency	30th MMC – Shumen
Minister of Education and Science
	In office; 12 May 2021 – 2 August 2022
Prime Minister	Stefan Yanev; Kiril Petkov;
Preceded by	Krasimir Valchev
Succeeded by	Sasho Penov
	In office; 27 January 2017 – 4 May 2017
Prime Minister	Ognyan Gerdzhikov
Preceded by	Meglena Kuneva
Succeeded by	Krasimir Valchev
Deputy Minister of Education and Science
	In office; 12 August 2014 – 5 April 2016
Prime Minister	Boyko Borisov
Minister	Todor Tanev; Meglena Kuneva
Personal details
Born	Nikolai Denkov Denkov; 3 September 1962 (age 61); Stara Zagora, PR Bulgaria
Political party	We Continue the Change (since 2022)
Other political; affiliations	Independent (until 2022)
Education	Sofia University
Occupation	Politician; chemist; physicist;

Nikolai Denkov Denkov (Bulgarian: Николай Денков Денков, born September 3, 1962) is a Bulgarian politician who served as Prime Minister of Bulgaria from 2023 to 2024.^[1] A member of the PP party, he previously served as a Member of the National Assembly from 2022 to 2023 and as Minister of Education and Science in 2017 and from 2021 to 2022. Denkov is a physicist, physical chemist and chemist. He is a member of the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences and was a lecturer at the University of Sofia.