Ivan Ivanov was born in 1973. He graduated from the French High School in Sofia and afterwards the University of Chemical Technology and Metallurgy in Sofia.
He specialized in chemical engineering in Toulouse. He has MA degrees in Business Administration from the Francophone Institute of Administration and Management in Sofia and the University of Nantes as well an MBA degree from the American University in Bulgaria.
Ivan Ivanov has been working in the water supply and sewerage sector since 1999. He has worked in the French company Lyonnaise des eaux on projects related to management of processes and assets in the water supply network of Paris.
From 2000 to 2012 he was with Sofiyska Voda, where he has headed the Concession Compliance Unit.
In Febryary 2012 Ivan Ivanov was elected Chairman of the Bulgarian Water Association (BWA).