Andrey Andreev Kovatchev (Bulgarian: Андрей Андреев Ковачев; born 13 December 1967), is a Bulgarian politician, Member of the European Parliament, a federalist and Head of the Bulgarian Delegation in the EPP Group in the European Parliament. Kovatchev is a chairman of the Union of European Federalists in Bulgaria. Since 2011 he has also been its vice-president. In January 2012 he was elected vice-chair of AFET – Committee on Foreign Affairs of the European Parliament.

Andrey Kovatchev was born in Sofia.

He has a degree in Biology form Saarland University, Germany (1990–1995). Later he obtained a PhD in biology from the same university.

In the period 1995–1998, Kovatchev was a university assistant in Saarland University, Germany. Later he did a traineeship at the European Parliament. In 1998 he became a Commercial Director at Alfa Laval Agri and in 2002 he became a Commercial Manager for John Deere. Between 2004 and 2009 Andrey Kovatchev was a Regional Director for Central and East Europe for Elsevier.

From 2007 Andrey Kovatchev is a Vice- chairman of the Committee on Foreign Policy and European Affairs and Vice – International Secretary of political party GERB. Andrey Kovatchev became a Member of the European Parliament after the elections in 2009 form the ticket of PP GERB. Between March 2011 and November 2018 Andrey Kovatchev was vice-president of the Union of European Federalists. Furthermore, he is a Chairman of the Union of the European Federalists in Bulgaria. Since January 2012 he is vice-chairman of AFET - Committee on Foreign Affairs of the European Parliament.

2014 - till now

Member of European Parliament Presidency (Quaestor),

member of the Committee on Foreign Policy and European Affairs and