Silvana Koch-Mehrin

Silvana Koch-Mehrin, MEP

Silvana Koch-Mehrin (born 17 November 1970, Wuppertal) is a German MEP from Free Democratic Party - The Liberals (since 2004).

Affiliations

Parliamentary Affiliations

Vice-President:

14.07.2009 / ... : European Parliament

Vice-Chair:

20.07.2004 / 13.07.2009 : Group of the Alliance of Liberals and Democrats for Europe

Member:

21.07.2004 / 14.01.2007 : Committee on Budgets

15.09.2004 / 13.03.2007 : Delegation for relations with the Maghreb countries and the Arab Maghreb Union (including Libya)

15.01.2007 / 30.01.2007 : Committee on Budgets

31.01.2007 / 13.07.2009 : Committee on Budgets

14.03.2007 / 14.03.2007 : Delegation for relations with the Maghreb countries and the Arab Maghreb Union (including Libya)

14.07.2009 / ... : Parliament's Bureau

14.07.2009 / 19.07.2009 : Group of the Alliance of Liberals and Democrats for Europe

16.07.2009 / ... : Committee on Petitions

20.07.2009 / ... : Group of the Alliance of Liberals and Democrats for Europe

Substitute:

22.07.2004 / 14.01.2007 : Committee on Budgetary Control

15.09.2004 / 13.03.2007 : Delegation for relations with the Mashreq countries

14.10.2004 / 08.06.2005 : Temporary committee on policy challenges and budgetary means of the enlarged Union 2007-2013

15.01.2007 / 30.01.2007 : Committee on Budgetary Control

31.01.2007 / 13.07.2009 : Committee on Budgetary Control

14.03.2007 / 13.07.2009 : Delegation for relations with the Mashreq countries

16.07.2009 / ... : Committee on Industry, Research and Energy

16.09.2009 / ... : Delegation to the EU-Croatia Joint Parliamentary Committee

Record and Controversies

Declaration of Financial Interests

• In 2008, I have received gross 14.000 euros pre-tax fee for lectures at the National Association of Fruit, Vegetable and Potato Processing Industries e.V. (Bundesverband der obst-, gemüse- und kartoffelvearbeitenden Industrie e.V.), Hallertauer Volksbank e.G., Ullstein Publishing, Association of German Directory Information Media (Verband Deutscher Auskunfts- und Verzeichnismedien), Werner Kimmig GmbH.

Record of Parliamentary Votes

Election Campaign 2009

Silvana Koch-Mehrin has not yet pledged to any of the four issues presented by the Election Campaign:

• to provide leadership in lobbying transparency and ethics,
• to provide leadership in reforming financial architecture,
• to promote a full-scale rethink of the EU trade policy,
• to promote corporate accountability.

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Personal Information

Curriculum Vitae

• Studied economics and history (until 1995); PhD: title of thesis: 'Historical currency union' (1998).
• Co-founder and manager of business consultancy (until July 2004).
• Chairwoman of the FDP's Extraterritorial Group (Europe) (1999).
• Member, Executive Committee, FDP (1999).
• Member, Bureau, FDP (2004).
• Member of the ELDR Party Council (since 2002).
• Vice-Chairwoman of the ALDE Group; Chairwoman of the FDP in the European Parliament.
• Member of Young Global Leaders, World Economic Forum; ambassador for SOS-Children's Villages, Germany.
• 'Woman of the Year' (2004 - award from Freundin magazine); Political award: 'Up and coming politician of the year' (2004).

Contact

Address:

Parlement européen

Bât. Altiero Spinelli

10G130

60, rue Wiertz / Wiertzstraat 60

B-1047 Bruxelles/Brussel

Phone:

+32 (0)2 28 45112

Email:

silvana.koch-mehrin AT europarl.europa.eu

Website:

http://www.koch-mehrin.de

This article is part of the MEPedia project of Spinwatch.

Resources

• European Parliament, Erklärung der finanziellen Interessen der Mitglieder: Silvana Koch-Mehrin, 15 January 2009, accessed 21 March 2009.
• European Parliament, MEP Directory: Silvana Koch-Mehrin, accessed 21 March 2009.
• European Parliament, MEP Directory: Silvana Koch-Mehrin, accessed 29 November 2010.