Ilan de Basso
Ilan de Basso (born 1 October 1969) is a Turkish-born ethnic Assyrian Swedish politician from the Social Democratic Party. 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 December 13, 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. He was elected a Member of the Riksdag in the 2022 Swedish general election. See also 

 List of members of the Riksdag, 2022–2026

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Living people

1969 births
Turkish emigrants to Sweden
Swedish people of Turkish descent
MEPs for Sweden 2019–2024
Swedish Social Democratic Party MEPs

Members of the Riksdag 2022–2026
Swedish politicians of Assyrian/Syriac descent