Irina von Wiese | |
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Member of the European Parliament for London | |
In office 2 July 2019 –31 January 2020 | |
Preceded by | Dr Charles Tannock |
Succeeded by | Constituency abolished |
Personal details | |
Born | Cologne,West Germany (now Germany) | 11 September 1967
Nationality | British,German |
Political party | Liberal Democrats |
Children | 1 |
Alma mater | Harvard University |
Irina Stephanie von Wiese und Kaiserswaldau [1] (born 11 September 1967) is a British politician,who was a Liberal Democrat Member of the European Parliament (MEP) for London between 2019 and the United Kingdom's withdrawal from the EU. [2] [3]
In a council by-election in 2017,she stood unsuccessfully for election in the ward of Avonmore and Brook Green in Hammersmith and Fulham,coming third. [1] She unsuccessfully stood in the Ravenscourt Park ward at the 2018 Hammersmith and Fulham borough election. [4]
She was elected a Member of the European Parliament for the London region in the 2019 European Parliament election,on the Liberal Democrat party list,assuming office on 2 July 2019. She sat within the Renew Europe group of liberal political parties and served as Vice-Chair on the European Parliament's Subcommittee on Human Rights (DROI). [5]
Until at least August 2019,she was formerly the Liberal Democrat prospective parliamentary candidate for Hammersmith in the 2019 United Kingdom general election. [6] [7] She was an unsuccessful candidate for the 2021 London Assembly election. [8] She was elected to serve as a councillor for the Borough &Bankside ward of Southwark London Borough Council in May 2022. She is standing again in the 2024 London Assembly election. [9]
Wiese holds both German and British citizenship. [10] She earned a Master of Public Administration (MPA) degree from Harvard University. [10] She has one teenage daughter [11] and has housed refugees in her London home since 2016,working with the charity Refugees at Home. [11]
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