Hannah Neumann (born 3 April 1984) is a German politician of the

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who has been serving as a

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since 2019.

Early life and education

Neumann studied

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at TU Ilmenau from 2002 until 2007 and

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Free University of Berlin The Free University of Berlin (, often abbreviated as FU Berlin or simply FU) is a public research university in Berlin, Germany. It is consistently ranked among Germany's best universities, with particular strengths in political science and t ...

from 2008 until 2012. During her studies, she spent a year abroad at

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from 2004 until 2005.

Career

Neumann worked as

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to Tom Koenigs (2013-2014) and as chief of staff to

Omid Nouripour Omid Nouripour ( fa, امید نوری‌پور; born 18 June 1975) is a German politician of the Alliance '90/The Greens who has been serving as a member of the Bundestag since 2006, representing the state of Hesse. Since 2022, he has also been ...

(2014-2016) in the German

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. From 2018 until 2019, she was an associate fellow at the

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(DGAP). Neumann has been a

since the 2019 European elections. She has since been serving on the

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and the

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. In addition, she serves as substitute in the Committee on Foreign Affairs. In 2022, she joined the Committee of Inquiry to investigate the use of

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and equivalent surveillance

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. In addition to her committee assignments, Neumann chairs the Parliament's delegation for relations with the

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. She is also a member of the European Parliament Intergroup on Anti-Racism and Diversity, the

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and the European Parliament Intergroup on Anti-Corruption. In the negotiations to form a so-called

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of the

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(SPD), the Green Party and the Free Democratic Party (FDP) following the 2021 federal elections, Neumann was part of her party's delegation in the working group on foreign policy, defence, development cooperation and human rights, co-chaired by

Heiko Maas Heiko Josef Maas (; born 19 September 1966) is a German lawyer and politician of the Social Democratic Party (SPD) who served as the Federal Minister of Foreign Affairs (2018–2021) and as the Federal Minister of Justice and Consumer Protectio ...

and

Alexander Graf Lambsdorff Alexander Sebastian Léonce, Baron von der Wenge, Count Lambsdorff (born 5 November 1966), commonly known as Alexander, Count Lambsdorff (german: Alexander Graf Lambsdorff) is a German politician of the Free Democratic Party of Germany, part of t ...

Other activities

(DGAP), Member of the Presidium (since 2019) * Berghof Foundation, Member of the Advisory Council

Political positions

In May 2021, Neumann joined a group of 39 mostly Green Party lawmakers from the European Parliament who in a letter urged the leaders of Germany, France and Italy not to support Arctic LNG 2, a $21 billion Russian Arctic

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(LNG) project, due to climate change concerns.

References

External links

* * 1984 births Living people MEPs for Germany 2019–2024 21st-century women MEPs for Germany Alliance 90/The Greens MEPs {{Germany-MEP-stub