NAME: Iotova, Malinova Iliana.

BULGARIA

POLITICAL GROUP: Group of the Progressive Alliance of Socialists and Democrats in the European Parliament (S&D).

PARTY: Platform European Socialists.

CONSTITUENCY: Bulgaria.

DATE OF LATEST ELECTION: 2009.

Committees: Member of the Committee on the Internal Market and Consumer Protection; Member of the Delegation for Relations with Canada; Substitute, Committee on Civil Liberties, Justice and Home Affairs; Substitute, Delegation for Relations with Australia and New Zealand.

Political Career: Deputy Chairwoman of the Sofia City Organisation of the Bulgarian Socialist Party since 2006; Deputy Chairwoman of the Bulgarian Parliamentary Delegation to the Parliamentary Assembly (PACE) of the Council of Europe and Chairwoman of the Bulgarian Representation in the Francophone Parliamentary Assembly since 2005; Member of the Supreme Council of the Bulgarian Socialist Party since 2000; Reporter, Editor and Head of Directorate of News and Current Affairs Programmes, Bulgarian National Television 1991-1997; Member of Parliament in the 40th National Assembly of the Republic of Bulgaria.

Education: Sofia University, Master's Degree in Bulgarian and French Language and Literature 1983-1989; Ecole Nationale d'Administration (ENA), Strasbourg since 2007.

Born: 24 October 1964, Sofia.