On the 5th March 2015, at the Presidential Palace in Valletta, Mr. Marin Raykov presented his credentials to the President of Malta Marie-Louise Coleiro Preca.
During the ceremony, the President of Malta and the Ambassador discussed bilateral relations.
Ambassador Marin Raykov was born on December 17th 1960 in Washington D.C., USA and is the son of high-ranking Bulgarian Diplomat Rayko Nikolov.
Ambassador Raykov studied in high school is Paris, Sofia and Belgrade. In 1984, he earned a degree in international relations from the University for National and World Economy in Sofia. In 1987, Raykov joined Bulgaria’s Diplomatic Service.
Between 1987 and 1992, both years inclusive, Ambassador Raykov worked at the Balkan countries. From 1992 to 1995 he was then posted as a diplomat in the Bulgarian Embassy in Belgrade. For the two years after 1995, he worked as a political and social issues expert in the Ministry for Foreign Affairs in the Human Rights and Humanitarian and Social Cooperation department.
In 1997, he was appointed as Bulgaria’s Deputy Permanent Representative at the Council of Europe, a post which he held till 1998, when Ambassador Raykov assumed the position of Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs in the Government of the Union of Democratic Forces of Prime Minister Ivan Kostov.
In 2001, he was accredited as Bulgaria’s Ambassador to France and Monaco, Permanent Representative at UNESCO as well as being the Bulgarian President’s personal representative in the International Organization of Francophonie.
In 2008, Ambassador Raykov worked as an Ambassador at large within the departments of European Foreign Policy and Strategy Issues at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Sofia. Later, in 2009 he was given a second mandate as Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs in the government of Prime Minister Boyko Borisov.
In 2010, he was appointed for a second mandate as an Ambassador in France and accredited as an Ambassador in Monaco and re-assumed his role as the Bulgarian President’s personal representative in the International Organization of Francophonie.
In 2013, he served as Interim Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs.
Currently, Ambassador Raykov is Ambassador to the Republic of Bulgaria in Rome (as of August 2013) and Non-Resident Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of Bulgaria to the Republic of San Marino (as on March 2014).
Raykov is a member of the Union of Bulgarian Journalists, of the Executive Committee of the Bulgarian Association of International Law, of the International Law Association and of the Executive Board of the Bulgarian Foreign Policy Association. He is also a grand officer of the Order of the Phoenix of Greece and of the Order of the National Merit of France.
Ambassador Raykov is married and has two children.