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.