Julia Verlinden | |
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 Verlinden in 2023 | |
| Member of the Bundestag for Lower Saxony | |
| Assumed office 26 September 2021 | |
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| Born | 18 January 1979 Bergisch Gladbach, West Germany (now Germany) |
| Political party | Greens |
| Alma mater | University of Lüneburg |
Julia Verlinden (born 18 January 1979) is a German politician of the Alliance 90/The Greens who has been serving as a member of the Bundestag from the state of Lower Saxony since 2013. [1]
Verlinden was born on 18 January 1979 in Bergisch Gladbach. [2] She studied environmental sciences at the University of Lüneburg from 1998 to 2005 and graduated with a diploma. [3] From 2006 to 2013 she was a research associate at the Federal Environment Agency (UBA) in Dessau. [3] In late 2012 she received her Doctor of Philosophy under Thomas Saretzki at her alma mater in a thesis called "Energieeffizienzpolitik als Beitrag zum Klimaschutz", which analyzed the implementation of EU building directives in Germany. [4] From January 2013 until she moved to the Bundestag in October 2013, she headed the Energy Efficiency Division at the Federal Environment Agency. [3]
From 2002 to 2006 she was a councillor in the Lüneburg city council, which she returned to doing starting in 2021. [5] She then became a member of the Lüneburg district council from 2006 to 2011. [5] During this time, she was also a member of the party council for The Greens. [5]
Verlinden became a member of the Bundestag in the 2013 German federal election. [6] From 2013 to 2021, she was a member of the Committee for Economic Affairs and Energy and served as her parliamentary group's spokesperson for energy policy. [7] [8]
Since 2021, Verlinden has been serving as one of her parliamentary group's deputy chairs, under the leadership of co-chairs Britta Haßelmann and Katharina Dröge. [9]
Verlinden contested Lüchow-Dannenberg – Lüneburg in 2013, 2017 and 2021. [10] [11]
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