Ljubo Georgiev

Webit Speaker, Team leader, Vision Sofia

Ljubo Georgiev (born 1981 in Sofia, Bulgaria) is an architect who combines design, academic and activist experience. He began studying architecture at IUAV in Venice (Italy). He received his master's degree in Architecture, Urbanism and Building sciences from TU Delft (the Netherlands) in 2007. Ljubo Georgiev has built-up an international experience by studying and working in diverse countries and contexts: Scotland, Italy, the Netherlands and China. He has authored a number of articles and has lectured at different conferences around Europe. Between 2014 and 2016 he was director of One Architecture Week, an international festival for contemporary architecture and the built environment. Since the end of 2016 he is leading the team, entitled to coordinate the process of creating a long term development plan for Sofia, Vision Sofia 2050. Currently he is also the director of Sofproect, which is Sofia’s municipal urban planning institute.