Quick Facts
Virgo
Biography
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.
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.