Andrey Novakov | |
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Андрей Новаков | |
 Novakov in 2024 | |
| Member of the European Parliament for Bulgaria | |
| Assumed office 24 November 2014 | |
| Personal details | |
| Born | Andrey Grishev Novakov (1988-07-07) 7 July 1988 Pazardzhik, Bulgaria |
| Party |  Bulgaria: GERB EU: EPP |
| Children | 1 |
| South-West University | |
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| Website | www |
Andrey Grishev Novakov (Bulgarian: Андрей Гришев Новаков; born 7 July 1988) is a Bulgarian politician and a Member of the European Parliament for Bulgaria. He is a member of GERB, which is affiliated with the European People’s Party at European level. He has served as a Member of the European Parliament since 2014."Andrey Novakov". European Parliament. Retrieved 29 May 2026.
In the 10th parliamentary term, Novakov is a member of the Committee on Regional Development and the Committee on Security and Defence. He is also a substitute member of the Committee on Transport and Tourism and of the Delegation for relations with the People’s Republic of China."Andrey Novakov: 10th parliamentary term". European Parliament. Retrieved 29 May 2026. Within the European People’s Party Group, he serves as coordinator for the Committee on Regional Development."Andrey Novakov". EPP Group in the European Parliament. Retrieved 29 May 2026.
His parliamentary work has focused on regional development, cohesion policy, EU funding, the EU budget, transport, and security and defence policy. Since 2019, he has served as EPP Group coordinator in the Committee on Regional Development, and since 2021 he has chaired the EPP cohesion policy monitoring group."Curriculum vitae: Andrey Novakov". European Parliament. Retrieved 29 May 2026.
Biography
Novakov was born in Pazardzhik, Bulgaria, and grew up in the village of Mominia Klisura. He completed his secondary education at the Professional High School of Electrotechnics and Automatics in Sofia, specialising in power plants, networks and systems.
He later studied at the South-West University “Neofit Rilski” in Blagoevgrad. In 2011, he obtained a bachelor’s degree in public administration, followed by a master’s degree in law in 2014."Curriculum vitae: Andrey Novakov". European Parliament. Retrieved 29 May 2026.
In November 2014, Novakov took part in a United States programme for young leaders, which included training at the United States Department of State and the Pentagon."Curriculum vitae: Andrey Novakov". European Parliament. Retrieved 29 May 2026.
In 2023, he completed initial military training as part of the voluntary reserve of the Bulgarian Armed Forces at the Faculty of Artillery and Air Defence in Shumen. Following one month of training, he took a military oath in Veliko Tarnovo."MEP Andrey Novakov: Ego ends when I have to shave my beard". Bulgarian Armed Forces Television Channel. 13 October 2023. Retrieved 29 May 2026.
Professional experience
From 2008 to 2011, Novakov was president of the Student Parliament at the Faculty of Law and History of South-West University “Neofit Rilski”. He was re-elected for a second term and was briefly editor-in-chief of the student newspaper ‘‘Vestnikat’’.
In 2011, he was elected deputy chairman of the European Democrat Students, the student organisation affiliated with the European People’s Party. In 2012, he was re-elected to the post."Curriculum vitae: Andrey Novakov". European Parliament. Retrieved 29 May 2026.
From 2011 to 2014, he worked as a public relations expert for the municipality of Blagoevgrad, where his work included public communications and international activities."Curriculum vitae: Andrey Novakov". European Parliament. Retrieved 29 May 2026.
Novakov joined GERB in 2008. Before becoming a Member of the European Parliament, he held positions including regional coordinator of Youth GERB in Blagoevgrad and international secretary of Youth GERB. He was also a candidate in Bulgaria’s first multi-member electoral district in a parliamentary election."Curriculum vitae: Andrey Novakov". European Parliament. Retrieved 29 May 2026.
Political career
Novakov has been a Member of the European Parliament since 2014.
During the 2014–2019 parliamentary term, he was a member of the Committee on Regional Development and a substitute member of the Committee on Budgets, the Committee on Transport and Tourism and the Committee on Budgetary Control. During the 2019–2024 parliamentary term, he was a member of the Committee on Budgets, the Committee on Regional Development and the Delegation to the EU–Albania Stabilisation and Association Parliamentary Committee. He was also a substitute member of the Committee on Transport and Tourism, the Committee on Budgetary Control and the Delegation for relations with Israel."Curriculum vitae: Andrey Novakov". European Parliament. Retrieved 29 May 2026.
Since 2019, he has served as coordinator of the European People’s Party Group in the Committee on Regional Development. Since 2021, he has also chaired the EPP cohesion policy monitoring group."Curriculum vitae: Andrey Novakov". European Parliament. Retrieved 29 May 2026.
In the 10th parliamentary term, Novakov is a member of the Committee on Regional Development and the Committee on Security and Defence. He is also a substitute member of the Committee on Transport and Tourism and of the Delegation for relations with the People’s Republic of China."Andrey Novakov: 10th parliamentary term". European Parliament. Retrieved 29 May 2026.