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Gerhard Schick | |
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 Gerhard Schick in 2014. | |
| Member of the German Bundestag | |
| In office 2005–2019 | |
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| Born | 18 April 1972 Hechingen, Baden-Württemberg |
| Nationality | German |
| Political party | Green Party |
| Alma mater | University of Freiburg |
| Profession | Economist |
| Website | www.gerhardschick.net |
Gerhard Schick (born 18 April 1972) is a German economist and finance expert who heads Finance Watch Deutschland. He previously served as a member of the German Bundestag for the Green Party.
After completing his secondary school education in 1991 at the Gymnasium Hechingen, Schick completed his Community Service and graduated in 1992. Between 1992 and 1998 Schick continued with his economics education at the University of Bamberg, University of Freiburg and Complutense University of Madrid where he was awarded his Diplom in Economics. Subsequently, until 2001 he was a research associate at the Walter Eucken Institute Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg and then from 2001 to 2004 the Market Economy Foundation in Berlin. In 2002 he was awarded a Ph.D. in Finance from the Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg for his work on "Dual Federalism in Europe". [1] In 2004 he joined the Bertelsmann Foundation in Gütersloh as a project manager.
Schick has been a member of the German Parliament since the 2005 federal elections, representing Baden-Württemberg. He has been regularly elected from the land list, having unsuccessfully contested the Mannheim constituency.
Schick has been the Alliance 90/The Greens parliamentary group's spokesman on financial policy since 2007. From its inception in 2008, he has been a member of the Financial Markets Panel, which provides parliamentary oversight of the Financial Market Stabilization Agency (FMSA). Following the 2013 federal elections, he was elected deputy chairman of the Finance Committee.
Additional to this he has written several publications. [2]
In September 2018, Schick announced that he would resign from his parliamentary seat. [3] He resigned by the end of 2018.
Schick led the creation of a new nongovernmental Organisation called "Bürgerbewegung Finanzwende" (Finance Watch Deutschland), [4] which cooperates with Finance Watch. [5]
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