Iskra Mihaylova
| Iskra Mihaylova MEP | |
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| Chair of the European Parliament Regional Development Committee | |
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Assumed office 7 July 2014 | |
| Preceded by | Anneli Jäätteenmäki |
| Member of the European Parliament | |
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Assumed office 1 July 2014 | |
| Constituency | Bulgaria |
| Personal details | |
| Born |
Iskra Mihaylova 7 September 1957 (age 61) Sofia, Bulgaria |
| Nationality | Bulgarian |
| Political party |
 Movement for Rights and Freedoms  Alliance of Liberals and Democrats for Europe Party |
| Alma mater | University of Sofia |
| Website |
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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. [1]
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.[2] In 1996, Mihaylova was an American Library Association Fellow working at the Colorado State Library.[3][4]
Parliamentary service
- Chair, Committee on Regional Development (2014-)
- Member, Conference of Committee Chairs
- Member, Delegation to the EU-Armenia and EU-Azerbaijan Parliamentary Cooperation Committees and the EU-Georgia Parliamentary Association Committee
- Member, Delegation to the EU-Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia Joint Parliamentary Committee
- Member, Delegation to the Euronest Parliamentary Assembly
- Mihaylova is the winner of the Regional Development Award, MEP Awards 2017.[5]
References
- ↑ http://www.europarl.europa.eu/meps/en/125128/ISKRA_MIHAYLOVA_home.html
- ↑ "Iskra MIHAYLOVA | Curriculum vitae | MEPs | European Parliament". www.europarl.europa.eu. Retrieved 2017-05-15.
- ↑ Bolt, Nancy. "A Bulgarian and Colorado Library Project." International Leads, vol. 16, no. 2, June 2002, pp. 1-8.
- ↑ Bolt, Nancy. "John Ames Humphrey Award--OCLC Forest Press Award: "Sure, Why Not?." International Leads, vol. 30, no. 3, Sept. 2016, p. 6.
- ↑ "MEP Awards 2017 - Winners". MEP Awards. Dods Parliamentary Communications Ltd. Retrieved 8 May 2017.