Lena Düpont (born 30 April 1986) is a German politician of the Christian Democratic Union who has been serving as a

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for

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since

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Education and early career

Düpont was born in

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and grew up in the Gifhorn district. In 2005 she finished the

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, after which she studied

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and

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at the

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. As a legislative advisor, she worked, among others, for

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in Brussels and then for Ewa Klamt, Eckhard Pols and

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in Berlin.

Member of the European Parliament

Düpont has been a

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

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. In this capacity, she had been the parliament's

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on a 2020 law establishing a common border procedure for international protection. In 2021, she also joined the parliament's working group on

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, led by

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. In addition to her committee assignments, Düpont was part of the Parliament's delegation to the EU-Montenegro Stabilisation and Association Parliamentary Committee. Since 2021, Düpont has been serving as deputy chairwoman of the CDU in

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, under the leadership of chairman

Bernd Althusmann Bernd Althusmann (; born 3 December 1966) is a German politician of the Christian Democratic Union (CDU) who served as Deputy Minister-President and State Minister for Economic Affairs in the government of Minister-President Stephan Weil from 2 ...

. She was nominated by her party as delegate to the Federal Convention for the purpose of electing the

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. She was reelected as a

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, where she currently serves as a member of the

and substitute on the

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Other activities

* Quadriga Hochschule Berlin, Member of the Advisory Board on Politics and Public AffairsAdvisory Board on Politics and Public Affairs
Quadriga Hochschule Berlin.

References

1986 births Living people MEPs for Germany 2019–2024 21st-century women MEPs for Germany Christian Democratic Union of Germany MEPs MEPs for Germany 2024–2029 {{Germany-MEP-stub