Nadya Mladenova  was born on 26 November 1982 in Sofia.

She completed her secondary education in the 105 “Atanas Dalchev” school with intensive Italian language in 2001.

She obtained a bachelor’s degree in recent and most recent Bulgarian history at Sofia University “St. Kliment Ohridski” in 2005.

She received a master’s degree at the Faculty of History at Sofia University “St. Kliment Ohridski” in 2009.

In the period 2009-2013 she was MEP Iliana Iotova’s assistant.

In the period 2013 – 2014 she was Chief of the Cabinet to the Minister of Education and Science.

In the period 2014- 2017 she was Chief of the Cabinet to MEP Iliana Iotova.

She held the position of Deputy Minister of Education and Science in the two caretaker governments, appointed by President Radev from 2 August 2022 and from 3 February 2023.

As of 1 July 2023, she was appointed as Chief of the Cabinet to the Vice President.

She is fluent in English, Italian and Russian.