Ivan Evstratiev Geshov (Bulgarian: Иван Евстратиев Гешов; 20 February 1849 – 11 March 1924) was a Bulgarian politician who served as Bulgarian Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs. He was born in Plovdiv to a family of merchants originally from Karlovo. Geshov was educated at the Bulgarian Sts. Cyrill and Methodius High School in Plovdiv, as well as at Owens College in Manchester (1866–1869), where he studied logic and political economy under William Stanley Jevons. Geshov first came to political attention through his involvement in the campaign for Bulgarian independence from the Ot