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Dr Babamov was born in Skopje, Macedonia, as the son of Krum Babamov of Shtip and Slavka Raleva of Kumanovo. His father, Krum Babamov, was a well known international-trade businessman who made a fortune in Germany and after his return to Macedonia invested heavily in the Macedonian economy.
Dr Babamov completed his elementary and secondary education, and obtained a college degree in Chemical Engineering in Skopje where he also worked briefly as a plant manager and an Assistant Professor at the School of Chemical Technology and Metallurgy at the University "Cyril and Methodius" in Skopje. He was awarded a Ph. D. in Chemical Physics from the University of Illinois under the mentorship of Professor R. A. Marcus, the 1992 Nobel Price Laureate in Chemistry. He served as a Postdoctoral Fellow at the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena, CA, where subsequently he obtained a Faculty Position. He also worked as a Professor of Chemistry at a Graduate Study Center of the system of Institutes of Technology in Mexico and taught at the California State University in Long Beach. He presently works as a Senior Analyst for the CAS a division of the American Chemical Society where he also served as the editor of the CAS Thesaurus. He speaks fluently and reads a large number of European languages which he utilizes in his work.
In 1990-1991 Dr. Babamov served as President of the Macedonian Orthodox Church St. Mary in Columbus where his presidency coincided with the period of formation of the Macedonian State. He was active in providing aid to the Macedonian state by organizing vote on the referendum, organizing the airlifting of several medical-aid shipments and contributing heavily to the lobbying efforts for recognition of Macedonia. In 1991 he was appointed on the Ohio Medical Mission Task Force, which collected the surplus Medical Equipment and supplies made available by the closing a large number of hospitals in Ohio and sent it to needy countries and in 1993 delivered a major shipment of four ocean-going containers of medical equipment and supplies from that Task Force to Macedonia, the larger medical aid shipment ever delivered to Macedonia. With the aid of the Project Bookshare of his employer, The ACS Dr. Babamov collected a shipment of 30,000 pounds of Chemistry books and journals that was sent to Macedonia on December 31, 1998.
In 1995 frustrated by the slow pace of the restitution process of the properties confiscated from the private individuals and churches in Macedonia, Dr. Babamov and a group of concerned individuals all over the world formed the Association for Property Restitution in Macedonia. The Association lobbied the Macedonian government officials visiting the US, the US Congress and Government, and the European Union to bring about just restitution of those properties. The efforts of the Association culminated by the passing of the Law on Restitution in April 2000, one of the more advanced such laws in Eastern Europe, which is now being implemented. The Macedonian Orthodox Church was the largest single victim of the confiscation and nationalization in Macedonia and is likely to be the principal beneficiary of the Restitution Law that the Association for Property Restitution in Macedonia helped bring about.
In the spring of 2001, after the invasion of terrorist bands from Kosovo into Macedonia, Dr. Babamov initiated the formation of the Macedonian American Friendship Association. The Association was formally constituted and registered as a charitable not for profit corporation in May, 2001. The Association has grown into the most visible and viable Macedonian American institution in the United States that promotes the Macedonian American Friendship and promotes the Macedonian American point of view in the US.
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