Ivelina Vasileva

Ivelina Vasileva has extensive experience of more than 15 years in the public sector. After 10 years in the corporate business, in 2007 she became deputy mayor of the city of Burgas and was responsible for the environmental and EU policies at local level. Following that she was Deputy Minister of Environment and Waters and Head of the national delegations in both the International Commission for the Protection of the Danube River and the Commission on the Protection of the Black Sea against Pollution. In the period 2014-2017 she was Minister of Environment and Waters in the government of Bulgaria. During her office in the Ministry of Environment and Waters, she was responsible for the development and implementation of the national environmental protection and climate change policies, monitoring and control, as well as the national and donor environmental financing programs. Ivelina Vasileva was elected four times as a member of the Bulgarian national parliament and during her mandate from 2017 to 2021 she was Chair of the Permanent Committee of Environment and Waters and Deputy Chair of the European Affairs and Monitoring of EU Funds Committee. Currently she is a Mission Board Member of the Mission “Restore Our Ocean and Waters” of the European Commission.