Iliana Ivanova is the European Commissioner for Innovation, Research, Culture, Education and Youth. She previously served as Member of the European Court of Auditors (2013 – 2023), as Member of the European Parliament (2009 – 2012) and as a Member of Sofia City Council (2007 – 2009). She has also worked as Investment and business analyst in various financial and banking institutions in US as well as coordinator for International financial institutions in the Bulgarian Ministry of Agriculture and Food. 

Born in Verviers in 1968, Pierre-Yves Jeholet has a university education in the legal and media fields.

His political career began in 1999. He thus became municipal councilor in Herve (2000) and provincial councilor (2000-2003) for the Province of Liège.

Between 2003 and 2009, he became Deputy in the Chamber of Representatives (2003-2004), Deputy in the Parliament of Wallonia (2004-2007) and again Deputy in the Chamber of Representatives (2007-2009). In addition to these mandates, he was also appointed Spokesperson for the MR (2008-2011).

Following the regional elections of 2009 and 2014, he sat both in the Parliament of Wallonia and in the Parliament of the French community (2009-2017) while becoming Mayor of Herve (2012-2017).

He was then Head of the MR group in the Parliament of Wallonia (2014-2017) and in July 2017, he was appointed Vice-President and Minister for the Economy, Industry, Research, Innovation, Digital, Employment and Training of the Walloon Government.

The day after the 2019 electoral ballot, on September 17, 2019, he took the oath and became Minister-President of the French community of Belgium.

I am Mirna Jukić-Berger, a Croatian born Olympic swimmer who, due to some life circumstances, ended up living in and swimming for Austria. I come from a sports family and was always into action, moving and competing. I started to swim at the age of seven and continued to swim until the age of 24. What should I say – it was love at first sight.

My swimming career had its ups and downs, but I loved and enjoyed (almost J) every second of it. As a competitor, I participated in two Olympic Games (2004 and 2008) and I proudly wear the bronze medal from the 2008 Beijing Olympics in 100m breaststroke. My other achievements in the pool include a 5-time European Champion-title, numerous silver and bronze medals from the European Championship, as well as three bronze medals from the World Championships.

Due to my successes, I have been chosen as “Austria’s Sportswoman of the Year” three times, in 2002, 2008 and 2009. Experts say that I am one of the Austrian most successful summer-sport athletes of all time – I would say that I am just a girl who followed her dream and got lucky to do what she loves with such a success.

After I finished my swimming career in 2010, I continued to be in and around sports and especially to still be a part of the Olympic Movement. I was able to work in different positions at the 2012 and 2016 Summer Olympics and I will continue this journey at the Olympic Games 2024 in Paris.

I am a mom of two, I have a bachelor's and master's degree in communication science, and I have been working at the Austrian Ministry of Sport since 2020.