Career
She got her law degree from the University of Leipzig. Her children are Stefan Stoyanov, born 1979 and Teofana Stoyanova, born 1990. Antonina Stoyanova was born in Sofia, Bulgaria in a family of Bulgarian intellectuals.
After her education in an English Language School in Plovdiv, she went to study at the University of Leipzig, Germany, where she completed her Bachelor and Master"s degree in International Law.
She joined the Bulgarian bar in 1979 and practiced law until 1992 when she became diplomat at the Bulgarian Ministry of Foreign Affairs. She was posted at the Bulgarian Embassy in London, United Kingdom in 1992.
Mrs Stoyanova speaks besides Bulgarian also German, English, French and Russian. Her children are Stefan Stoyanov, born 1979 and Teofana Stoyanova, born 1990.