Anna Cavazzini

Anna Cavazzini MEP
Member of the European Parliament for Germany
Incumbent
Assumed office 2 July 2019
Personal details
Born	(1982-12-12) 12 December 1982 (age 41) Schlüchtern, West Germany (now Germany)
Political party	German Alliance 90/The Greens   EU European Green Party
Alma mater	Chemnitz University of Technology

Anna Katrin Cavazzini (born 12 December 1982) is a German politician of the Alliance 90/The Greens who has been serving as a Member of the European Parliament since 2019. ^[1]

Early life and education

Having grown up in Hesse, Cavazzini studied European Studies at the Chemnitz University of Technology. She later completed a Master's degree in International Relations at the Free University of Berlin and the Humboldt University of Berlin in 2009.^{[ citation needed ]}

Early career

Following the 2009 European elections, Cavazzini worked as advisor to Ska Keller until 2014.

Cavazzini moved to the Federal Foreign Office in Berlin in 2014 as a consultant on development financing issues. During this time she was seconded to the United Nations in New York for one year and worked as an advisor to the 70th President of the United Nations General Assembly, Mogens Lykketoft, from 2015 until 2016.

After moving back to Berlin, Cavazzini worked as advisor on trade policy at Campact from 2016 until 2017 and human rights at Brot für die Welt in Berlin from 2017 until 2019. ^[2]

Political career

Early beginnings

In 2018, Cavazzini was one of the candidates to part to join the Green Party's national leadership around co-chairs Annalena Baerbock and Robert Habeck; she eventually lost in an internal vote against Jamila Schäfer. ^[3] Within the Green Party, Cavazzini is considered to be part of its left wing. ^[4]

Member of the European Parliament, 2019–present

Cavazzini has been a Member of the European Parliament since the 2019 European elections. ^[5] In parliament, she has since been serving on the Committee on International Trade (since 2019) and the Committee on the Internal Market and Consumer Protection (since 2020), ^[6] which she chairs. ^{[7] [8]}

In addition to her committee assignments, Cavazzini is part of the Parliament's delegations for relations with Brazil and to the Euro-Latin American Parliamentary Assembly. ^[9] She is also a member of the European Parliament Intergroup on Anti-Corruption ^[10] and the Responsible Business Conduct Working Group. ^[11]

In the negotiations to form a so-called traffic light coalition of the Social Democratic Party (SPD), the Green Party and the Free Democratic Party (FDP) following the 2021 federal elections, Cavazzini was part of her party's delegation in the working group on economic affairs, co-chaired by Carsten Schneider, Cem Özdemir and Michael Theurer. ^[12]

In March 2024, Cavazzini was one of twenty MEPs to be given a "Rising Star" award at The Parliament Magazine's annual MEP Awards ^[13]

Other activities

• Heinrich Böll Foundation, Member of the North/South Advisory Board ^[14]

References

1. "Alle Gewählte in alphabetischer Reihenfolge". Der Bundeswahlleiter (in German). Archived from the original on 11 December 2020. Retrieved 2 December 2019.
2. Sieben aus Mitteldeutschland ziehen nach Europa Mitteldeutscher Rundfunk , 27 May 2019.
3. Ansgar Graw (29 January 2018), Zwei Realos sind keine Mehrheit Archived 26 November 2021 at the Wayback Machine Die Welt .
4. Ansgar Graw (29 January 2018), Zwei Realos sind keine Mehrheit Archived 26 November 2021 at the Wayback Machine Die Welt .
5. Sieben aus Mitteldeutschland ziehen nach Europa Archived 26 January 2020 at the Wayback Machine Mitteldeutscher Rundfunk , 27 May 2019.
6. Mia Bortolani (23 October 2020), Movers and Shakers Archived 30 October 2020 at the Wayback Machine The Parliament Magazine .
7. Martin Banks (19 October 2020), Parliament’s IMCO Committee can have ‘central role’ in tackling climate change, says nominated chair Archived 31 October 2020 at the Wayback Machine The Parliament Magazine .
8. Tanja Brandes (25 October 2020), IMCO-Vorsitz: Anna Cavazzini übernimmt im Maschinenraum Archived 29 October 2020 at the Wayback Machine Berliner Zeitung .
9. Anna Cavazzini Archived 1 February 2020 at the Wayback Machine European Parliament.
10. Intergroup on Anti-Corruption Archived 15 December 2022 at the Wayback Machine European Parliament.
11. Members Archived 23 May 2020 at the Wayback Machine Responsible Business Conduct Working Group.
12. Britt-Marie Lakämper (21 October 2021), SPD, Grüne, FDP: Diese Politiker verhandeln die Ampel-Koalition Archived 3 April 2022 at the Wayback Machine Westdeutsche Allgemeine Zeitung .
13. "MEP Awards 2024 - The Rising Stars". The Parliament Magazine . 21 March 2024. Retrieved 26 March 2024.
14. North-South Advisory Board Archived 20 June 2021 at the Wayback Machine Heinrich Böll Foundation.

External links

• European Union portal