Iskra Mihaylova MEP |
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Chair of the European Parliament Regional Development Committee | |
Assumed office 7 July 2014 |
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Preceded by | Anneli Jäätteenmäki |
Member of the European Parliament | |
Assumed office 1 July 2014 |
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Constituency | Bulgaria |
Personal details | |
Born |
Iskra Mihaylova 7 September 1957 (age 59) Sofia, Bulgaria |
Nationality | Bulgarian |
Political party |
Bulgarian: Movement for Rights and Freedoms EU: Alliance of Liberals and Democrats for Europe Party |
Alma mater | University of Sofia |
Website | www |
Iskra Mihaylova (Bulgarian: Искра Михайлова) (born 7 September 1957), is a Bulgarian politician and Member of the European Parliament (MEP) from Bulgaria. She has been a Member of the European Parliament since July 2014. She is a member of the Movement for Rights and Freedoms, part of the Alliance of Liberals and Democrats for Europe Party. She is the current chair of the European Parliament Committee on Regional Development.
Mihaylova earned a master's degree in Library Studies and Information Technologies from the Saint-Petersburg State University of Culture and Arts in 1980. She worked for the SS. Cyril and Methodius National Library from 1980 to 1996. In 1996, Mihaylova was an American Library Association Fellow working at the Colorado State Library.