site.btaUnion of Bulgarian National Electronic Media Elects BNR Director General Milen Mitev as Chair

The Union of Bulgarian National Electronic Media (UBNEM) unanimously elected as its chairman Milen Mitev, Director General of the Bulgarian National Radio (BNR). Members of the Union are BTV Media Group, Bulgarian National Television (BNT), Bulgarian News Agency (BTA), Bulgarian National Radio (BNR), Darik Radio and Nova Broadcasting Group. 

The regular annual general meeting in Sofia decided that the current chairman of UBNEM, Hristo Hristov, executive director of Darik Radio, will continue to be a member of the Board and re-elected Vyara Ankova, member of the Programme Council of Nova Broadcasting Group. Mitev did not participate in the vote for chairman. 

In December 2023, Milen Mitev became the first Bulgarian to be elected to the Board of the European Broadcasting Union (EBU), the world's largest public service media organization. Mitev is also a member of the Legal Committee and the Radio Committee of the EBU. 

Mitev was born on March 4, 1984. He graduated in Law from Sofia University. He started working at BNR in 2009 as a legal advisor. In the period August 2018 - July 2019, he held the position of Director of the Legal and Human Resources Directorate of BNR. From September 2019 to March 2020, he worked at BTA, first as General Counsel and then as Secretary General. As of April 1, 2020, he is the Director of the Administrative Directorate of the BNR. On October 27, 2021, the Council for Electronic Media elected him Director General of BNR.