Dimitar Tsotsorkov

Trustee, Chairperson of the Supervisory Board of Assarel-Medet JSC

Dimitar Tsotsorkov is the Chairman of the Supervisory Board of Asarel-Medet JSC since 2017. Prior to this, he served as the Chairman of its Management Board from 2015 to 2017. Mr. Tsotsorkov has been working at Asarel-Medet since 2001 first as a sales and hedging expert and then as a department manager and Corporate Development Director. Before taking these positions, he worked for GLENCORE and was the СЕО of the Austrian trading company AVC – a joint venture between Asarel and the biggest Austrian trading house VAIT Linz.

Dimitar Tsotsorkov was acknowledged as a Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) Pioneer for Digital Transformation and became the first manager of a mining company to win the prestigious award in 2022.

Mr. Tsotsorkov is a member of the Board of Trustees of the American University in Bulgaria, Krastyo Sarafov National Academy of Theater and Film Arts and St. Ivan Rilski University of Mining and Geology. He established the “Lachezar Tsotsorkov” Foundation which funds education, healthcare, culture and child protection initiatives.

Mr. Tsotsorkov holds a joint Bachelor of Science and Bachelor of Arts degree from Richmond University, London and a Masters degree from Westminster University, London and has also completed the entry course of the EMBA degree at IMD, Lausanne and numerous professional and academic specializations. He is fluent in English, Russian and German.