Metin Hakverdi

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Metin Hakverdi
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Metin Hakverdi in 2014
Member of the Bundestag
Assumed office
2013

Metin Hakverdi (born 25 June 1969) is a German lawyer and politician of the Social Democratic Party (SPD) who has been serving as a member of the Bundestag for the Hamburg-Bergedorf-Harburg constituency [1] since the 2013 German federal election. [2]

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Early life and education

Hakverdi attended high school in Simi Valley, California, in 1985/86 and studied law at the Christian-Albrecht University in Kiel and at Indiana University’s Maurer School of Law.

Political career

Career in state politics

Before being elected to the Bundestag, Hakverdi was a member of the Parliament of the Free and Hanseatic City of Hamburg from 2008 to 2013. During his time in Hamburg Parliament, he served on the Budget Committee, among others.

Member of the German Parliament, 2013–present

Hakverdi currently serves on the Bundestag’s Budget Committee [3] as well as the Committee on European Union Affairs. [4] He is a member of the German-American Parliamentary Friendship Group, a member of Atlantikbrücke, a member of the German-Israeli Parliamentary Friendship Group. Within his parliamentary group, he has been chairing a working group on relations with North America since 2018. [5]

Hakverdi was a John F. Kennedy Memorial Policy Fellow at Harvard University [6] and a Distinguished Visitor at the American Institute for Contemporary German Studies at Johns Hopkins University. [7]

Other activities

Personal life

Hakverdi is of ethnic Turkish origin. [10]

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References

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  2. "Metin Hakverdi, MdB". SPD-Bundestagsfraktion (in German). 23 September 2013. Retrieved 19 March 2020.
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  4. "German Bundestag - Committee on European Union Affairs". German Bundestag. Retrieved 6 March 2022.
  5. DW Brent Goff talks to German lawmaker Metin Hakverdi about anti-Trump op-ed in the New York Times Deutsche Welle , September 6, 2018.
  6. "Hakverdi - John F. Kennedy Memorial Policy Fellow 2020" . Retrieved 7 March 2022.
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