Lyubomir Ivanov (explorer)

He earned his PhD from Sofia University in 1980, under the direction of Dimiter Skordev with a dissertation titled Iterative Operative Spaces, and was the 1987 winner of Acad.

He was a member of the Streit Council Advisory Board, Washington, DC since 2006[2] and, founding Chairman, Antarctic Place-names Commission since 1994.

[3][4] He authored the modern Bulgarian system for Romanization of Cyrillic alphabet,[5] adopted also for official use both by UN,[6] and also by the US and UK.

[7] In the course of his work for, among others, the Atlantic Club of Bulgaria, Ivanov has given interviews to various news outlets, at times espousing views that NATO must expand eastwards due to a deficit in its military capacity.

[8] Ivanov was a member of the UDF Coordinating Council[9] and took part in the 1990 Bulgarian Round Table Talks.