Ilan de Basso
Swedish politician
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Ilan de Basso (born 1 October 1969) is a Turkish-born ethnic Assyrian Swedish politician from the Social Democratic Party.[1]
Ilan De Basso grew up in Stockholm and Örebro. He moved to his current hometown Jönköping in the late 1990s and has worked as a policy analyst, at the NGO Save the Children Fund, and at the Swedish Public Employment Service. He was previously a counsellor in Jönköping Municipality for 11 years, where he was responsible for education, labour market and care issues.
Ilan De Basso became a member of European Parliament on 13 December 2021, where he is a member of the Committee on Employment and Social Affairs and substitute for the committee on budgets as well as the committee on development.
Political career
Since 2013, he is a member of the Swedish Social Democratic Party's national board.
In 2021, he replaced Johan Danielsson in the European Parliament when he was appointed to the Andersson Cabinet.[2]
He was elected a Member of the Riksdag in the 2022 Swedish general election.[3][4]
