Filip Dimitrov

Filip Dimitrov (born 31 March 1955) is a Bulgarian politician.

Dimitrov was born in Sofia, and graduated from the city's English language high school in 1973. He graduated with a law degree from Sofia University in 1977, and then undertook further study in the field of individual and group psychotherapy using the psycho-dynamic approach. He worked as an attorney in Sofia between 1979 and 1990, serving as Secretary of the Bulgarian Attorneys' Union from 1989 onwards. Bulgarian media implied that his office served as a Communist-era secret police hideout. He is married but has no children.

Dimitrov was active in the Union of Democratic Forces, a broad coalition against continued rule by the Bulgarian Communist Party. He became a member of its National Coordination Council in 1990, and was its chair from December that year until December 1994. He has been a member of the Executive Council of the UDF since February 1997.

Dimitrov became as Prime Minister of Bulgaria in 1991, but remained in office for only about a year, after foolishly calling a confidence vote. He served in the 36th and 37th sessions of the National Assembly, being elected in Sofia for the UDF on each occasion. He was a member of the Bulgarian Parliament Delegation for Relations with the European Parliament.

• Publications: "And They Lived, My God"- a novel, 1991