Brazil's first female President Dilma Rousseff will arrive to Bulgaria, the country in which her father was born, late on Tuesday.

Rousseff's official two-day visit kicks off on Wednesday. The Brazilian President was invited by her Bulgarian counterpart Georgi Parvanov already in November 2010.

Rousseff is the first Brazilian President to visit Bulgaria ever since the diplomatic relations between the two countries were reestablished 50 years ago. Her delegation includes key Brazilian business representatives.

In Sofia, Rousseff has on her agenda official meetings with Parvanov, as well with Prime Minister, Boyko Borisov, who secured her visit around New Years while in Brazil for her inauguration.

On September 2, Bulgaria's Foreign Minister Nikolay Mladenov met his Brazilian counterpart Antonio Patriota and confirmed Rousseff will visit Bulgaria soon, but no official date was set then.

Dilma Vana Rousseff was born on December 14, 1947, in Belo Horizonte, in the family of Bulgarian immigrant Petar Rusev (1900-1962), aka Pedro Rousseff, a lawyer and construction entrepreneur, and Dilma Jane Silva, a school teacher whose parents were ranchers.

In 2003, Brazilian President Lula surprisingly chose Dilma for Minister of Energy. She became most famous for implementing a program called "Electricity for All" designed to bring electric power to households of Brazil's underdeveloped and remote regions, and was later picked to be his Chief of Staff.

Dilma has become the first female head of government in the history of Brazil, and the first de facto female head of state since the death of Maria I, Queen of the United Kingdom of Portugal, Brazil and the Algarves in 1816.

Even though her country's economy has slowed down after the boom in the years of her predecessor, Lula da Silva, Rousseff still enjoys a good deal of support and is considered to be one of the world's most influential women.

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