Tanya Mihaylova

Ms. Tanya Mihaylova is Director of the Diplomatic Institute to the Minister of Foreign Affairs since 1 February 2012. She has been working at the Diplomatic Institute since 2005 and in series she has been Head of Research program and Head of the “Public affairs and cooperation” Department.
Ms Mihaylova acts as the Bulgarian representative in the Steering committee at the European Security and Defence College (Brussels) and in the Board of Directors at the EU Institute for Security Studies (Paris). Her diplomatic rank is Counsellor. Ms Mihaylova is Master in Law and during the years, she has been a lawyer and a legal expert at the European Integration Department at the National Assembly. During the negotiations for the Bulgarian membership in the EU, she has given legal statements regarding the
compatibility of various acts with the EU law with field negotiation chapters – “Regional Policy”, “Energy” , “Environment” ,  “Administrative Capacity”.
From 2002 to 2005 Ms Mihaylova was a Parliamentary Secretary at the MFA, responsible for the relations between the Minister of Foreign Affairs and the National Assembly, parliamentary groups, permanent committees at the National Assembly. Ms Mihaylova also managed the Minister’s participation at the parliamentary control. Ms Mihaylova has additional qualifications at the College of Europe-Bruges; NATO’s Training Center; the Netherland Institute for International Relations “Clingendael” U.S. State Department, l’Ecole nationale dádministration de France – on topics related to EU law, NATO’s role and structure, Diplomacy in a Globalised World, Management in the Public Sector.
She is member of the editorial board of the Bulgarian bilingual Diplomacy Journal. She has multidisciplinary professional interests. The French Association “Renaissance Française” awarded Ms. Mihaylova with Gold medal for her contribution to the French-Bulgarian cultural relations. Languages: English, French.