Mr Petko Petkov


Mr Petko Petkov graduated from the Sofia University as a Magister of Law. He was a junior judge at the Sofia District Court from 2005 until 2007 and since 2007 is a judge at the

Criminal Division at the Sofia Regional court. During his career as a criminal judge he has worked on thousands of cases and it has been a core rule in his work to always adhere to the principles of ECHR and to the European Court of Human Rights case law.

From 2014 until 2015 he was appointed as an expert for a Deputy Minister of Justice of the Republic of Bulgaria. During that period he was responsible for the representation of the country before the European Court of Human Rights and had to provide methodological guidance and control over the activity of the Directorate within the Ministry. Apart from his duties related to establishing the modus operandi of the procedural representation before ECtHR, he was directly involved in drafting the legislative amendments related to the Judiciary.

From 2012 until 2015 he was a guest lecturer in Criminal Law and Criminal Procedures at the National Training Institute for the Judiciary where he broadened and developed his knowledge at a more theoretical and academic level.

He joined EULEX KOSOVO in 2017 as an International Criminal Judge where he worked until the end of the Executive mandate of the Mission in 2018. Currently he is a Thematic Lead

Monitor for the Crimes under the International Law in EULEX.

Mr Petkov was appointed as the Substitute Member of the Human Rights Review Panel by the Head of Mission EULEX Kosovo on 19 December, 2018.