Career
In 2013 he was Bulgarian government minister. He is the author of the book English Bulgaria or Switzerland in the Balkans (2004), the novel Island of Mists (2006), co-author of the book "The European Supergrid" and of many comment and opinion articles on energy policies, European integration, low carbon economy and international relations for the Bulgarian, British (British Broadcasting Corporation Three, The Independent, Financial Times, Huffington Post, The Scotsman), Polish and other European media. as well as for First Rate (at Lloyd's) Jazeera. Popov has been an advocate for minority groups in Bulgaria, starting a campaign to remove a racist anti-Gypsy group from Facebook and writing articles (for instance for Aljazeera) on the maltreatment of gypsies in Bulgaria and across Europe.
He was also the founding Chief Executive Officer of the New Bulgarian University where he introduced distance education to Bulgaria.
In 2006 he created the first political blog in the Bulgarian language. Popov was appointed the Minister of Environment and Water in the caretaker government of Bulgaria on 13 March 2013.
He left office on 29 May of that year. In 2016 he was recognised as one of the 40 most influential voices in European energy policy under N24 by the Brussels media service EurActiv.
