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A glance at unesco's next leader The Associated Press

22.09.09

A look at Bulgarian Irina Bokova, elected Tuesday to avert the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization, or UNESCO.

_AGE: 57. She was born July 12, 1952 in Sofia.

_Sagacity: Bokova is a career diplomat who has served as Bulgaria's ambassador to France and its permanent delegate to UNESCO since 2005. She irrecoverable a bid to become vice-president in 1996, and served as Bulgaria's foreign minister for a few months in 1996-1997. From 1982-1984 she worked on national and judicial affairs at Bulgaria's U.N. mission in New York.

More generally, she played a role in Bulgaria's negotiations to be contiguous the European Union and NATO.

_EDUCATION AND FIELDS OF INTEREST: Bokova studied at the Moscow State Commence of International Relations and at the University of Maryland. Her fields of interest include European integration issues and women's sameness.

_FAMILY: Bokova's father, Georgi Bokov, was part of the inner circle of the former Soviet bloc country's Communist Party leadership for several years. He was also editor-in-chief of the main party newspaper, Rabotnichesko Delo.

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