1. Philip Dimitrov graduated from the First English Language School, Sofia, in 1973 and later he graduated with a law degree from Sofia University in 1977, and then undertook further study in the field of individual and group psychotherapy and worked with outpatients using the psycho-dynamic approach.
Philip Dimitrov worked as an attorney in Sofia between 1979 and 1990, serving as Secretary of the Bulgarian Attorneys' Union from 1989 onwards.
Philip Dimitrov became a member of its 'National Coordination Council' in 1990, and was its President from December that year until December 1994.
Philip Dimitrov has been a member of the Executive Council of the UDF since February 1997.
Philip Dimitrov led the UDF to victory in the 1991 election, becoming the first elected Prime Minister in 47 years who was not either a Communist or a fellow traveller.
Philip Dimitrov's government was the first since that time with no Communist participation.
Philip Dimitrov remained in office until losing a vote of confidence that he called in the late fall of 1992.
Philip Dimitrov's government abolished the restrictions to private initiative and started establishing a free market system, which literally changed most Bulgarian cities within half a year.
Philip Dimitrov insisted on the large-scale restitution of nationalized properties, although he himself had none, and his government made the first practical steps allowing citizens to re-claim property that had been confiscated by the state.
Philip Dimitrov's government made possible the swift restitution of citizenship and property rights for all Jewish Bulgarian emigrants.
Philip Dimitrov served in the 36th, 37th, and 40th legislatures of the National Assembly, having been elected in Sofia for the UDF on each occasion.
Philip Dimitrov authored or introduced among other bills the Bill for Abolition of Mandatory Military Service and bills on preventing and sanctioning Conflict of Interest.
Philip Dimitrov was a member of the Bulgarian Parliament Delegation for Relations with the European Parliament.
Philip Dimitrov was a visiting scholar in the Woodrow Wilson Center in 2003.
Philip Dimitrov has taught political sciences in the American University in Bulgaria between 2002 and 2008, led post graduate programme at the University of Toronto and was visiting professor at Christopher Newport University in Newport News, Virginia.
Philip Dimitrov holds PhD in Political Science and is Distinguished professor at the New Bulgarian University.
Since 2004 Philip Dimitrov has been a Member of the Club of Madrid, an independent non-profit organization composed of 88 democratic former Presidents and Prime Ministers from 58 different countries.
Philip Dimitrov was appointed Head of Delegation of the European Union to the Republic of Georgia and served there between 2010 and 2014.
In September 1999, Mr Philip Dimitrov was granted the Truman-Reagan Freedom Award for his contribution to overcoming Communism.