Nikolina Nikolova graduated in Law in 2003 with a master degree in University of National and World Economy of Sofia, as she mainly specialized company, contract, European and estates law. She also has a postgraduate qualification on company management, as well as a number of certificates on regional policy and management of the European Union structural funds, as well as European policy. In 2009 she participated in the Real estate executive seminar in the Harvard business school.  She has published a number of articles for the European structural funds, was a guest-speaker in the Institute Catholique d’Etudes Superieures – La Roshe sur Yon, France, presenting the same topic, as well as she organized and chaired different round tables and workshops on the European union policy topics.  After coming back to Bulgaria she worked for several companies, one of them is the Spanish Hercesa where she was the general director for Bulgaria.Ms. Nikolova was invited to join the team in the Ministry of Regional Development and Public Works on the invitation of Minister Rosen Plevneliev. In the end of Feb. 2011 she was appointed a member of the board of Road Infrastructure agency. She speaks Bulgarian, English, Spanish, Italian and basic French and Russian.