Hannah Neumann

Not to be confused with Hanna Neumann.

Hannah Neumann MEP
Member of the European Parliament for Germany
Incumbent
Assumed office 2 July 2019
Personal details
Born	(1984-04-03) 3 April 1984 (age 40) Speyer, West Germany
Political party	German Alliance 90/The Greens   EU European Green Party
Alma mater	Free University of Berlin

Hannah Neumann (born 3 April 1984) is a German politician of the Alliance 90/The Greens who has been serving as a Member of the European Parliament since 2019. ^{[1] [2]}

Early life and education

Neumann studied media studies at TU Ilmenau from 2002 until 2007 and political science and media studies at Free University of Berlin from 2008 until 2012. ^[3] During her studies, she spent a year abroad at Ateneo de Manila University from 2004 until 2005.

Career

Hannah Neumann presenting herself in a video produced by Heinrich Böll Foundation/Green European Foundation.

Neumann worked as legislative assistant to Tom Koenigs (2013-2014) and as chief of staff to Omid Nouripour (2014-2016) in the German Bundestag. ^[4] From 2018 until 2019, she was an associate fellow at the German Council on Foreign Relations (DGAP).^{[ citation needed ]}

Neumann has been a Member of the European Parliament since the 2019 European elections. She has since been serving on the Subcommittee on Human Rights and the Subcommittee on Security and Defence. 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 Pegasus and equivalent surveillance spyware. ^{[5] [6]}

In addition to her committee assignments, Neumann chairs the Parliament's delegation for relations with the Arab Peninsula. ^[7] She is also a member of the European Parliament Intergroup on Anti-Racism and Diversity, ^[8] the European Parliament Intergroup on LGBT Rights ^[9] and the European Parliament Intergroup on Anti-Corruption. ^[10]

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, 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, Omid Nouripour and Alexander Graf Lambsdorff. ^[11]

Other activities

• European Council on Foreign Relations (ECFR), Member of the Council (since 2023) ^[12]
• German Council on Foreign Relations (DGAP), Member of the Presidium (since 2019) ^[13]
• Berghof Foundation, Member of the Advisory Council ^[14]

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 liquefied natural gas (LNG) project, due to climate change concerns. ^[15]

References

1. "Alle Gewählte in alphabetischer Reihenfolge". Der Bundeswahlleiter (in German). Retrieved 2 December 2019.
2. "Hannah Neumann | Heinrich Böll Stiftung | Brussels office - European Union". Heinrich-Böll-Stiftung. Retrieved 18 May 2020.
3. "Hannah Neumann | DGAP". dgap.org. Retrieved 17 December 2023.
4. "Europawahl: Das sind die spannendsten EU-Abgeordneten, die neu ins Parlament eingezogen sind". Handelsblatt (in German). 29 May 2019.
5. "Members of the Committee of Inquiry to investigate the use of Pegasus and equivalent surveillance spyware, European Parliament" (PDF). www.europarl.europa.eu. Retrieved 18 December 2022.
6. "Parliament names MEPs to sit on three new committees | News". www.europarl.europa.eu. 24 March 2022. Retrieved 18 December 2022.
7. "Home | Hannah NEUMANN | MEPs | European Parliament". www.europarl.europa.eu. 3 April 1984. Retrieved 18 December 2022.
8. Intergroup on Anti-Racism and Diversity, European Parliament
9. "Members – The European Parliament's LGBTI Intergroup". lgbti-ep.eu. Retrieved 18 December 2022.
10. "Intergroup on Anti-Corruption, European Parliament" (PDF). www.europarl.europa.eu. Retrieved 18 December 2022.
11. "Ampel-Koalition: Das sind die Verhandlungsteams von SPD, Grünen und FDP". www.deutschlandfunk.de (in German). 27 October 2021. Retrieved 18 December 2022.^{[ permanent dead link ]}
12. Members European Council on Foreign Relations (ECFR).
13. "Neues DGAP-Präsidium | DGAP". dgap.org. Retrieved 18 December 2022.
14. "Leadership and governance". Berghof Foundation. Retrieved 18 December 2022.
15. Abnett, Kate; Jessop, Simon (19 May 2021). "EU lawmakers urge France, Germany, Italy to ditch Arctic LNG 2 support". Reuters. Retrieved 18 December 2022– via www.reuters.com.

External links

Media related to Hannah Neumann at Wikimedia Commons

• Official website
• Personal profile of Hannah Neumann in the European Parliament 's database of members