Lena Düpont (born 30 April 1986) is a German politician of the Christian Democratic Union who has been serving as a Member of the European Parliament for Germany since 2019.[1]
Lena Düpont | |
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| Member of the European Parliament for Germany | |
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| Born | 30 April 1986 Dortmund, West Germany |
| Political party |  German:Christian Democratic Union  EU:European People's Party |
| Alma mater | University of Erlangen–Nuremberg |
Education and early career
editDüpont was born in Dortmund and grew up in the Gifhorn district. In 2005 she finished the Humboldt Gymnasium, after which she studied political science and journalism at the University of Erlangen–Nuremberg. As a legislative advisor, she worked, among others, for Renate Sommer in Brussels and then for Ewa Klamt, Eckhard Pols and Ingrid Pahlmann in Berlin.[2]
Member of the European Parliament
editDüpont has been a Member of the European Parliament since the 2019 European elections. She has since been serving on the Committee on Civil Liberties, Justice and Home Affairs. In this capacity, she had been the parliament's rapporteur on a 2020 law establishing a common border procedure for international protection.[3] In 2021, she also joined the parliament's working group on Frontex, led by Roberta Metsola.[4] In addition to her committee assignments, Düpont was part of the Parliament's delegation to the EU-Montenegro Stabilisation and Association Parliamentary Committee.[5]
Since 2021, Düpont has been serving as deputy chairwoman of the CDU in Lower Saxony, under the leadership of chairman Bernd Althusmann.[6] She was nominated by her party as delegate to the Federal Convention for the purpose of electing the President of Germany in 2022.[7]
She was reelected as a Member of the European Parliament in 2024, where she currently serves as a member of the Committee on Civil Liberties, Justice and Home Affairs and substitute on the Committee on Agriculture and Rural Development.[8]
Other activities
edit- Quadriga Hochschule Berlin, Member of the Advisory Board on Politics and Public Affairs[9]
References
edit- ^ "Alle Gewählte in alphabetischer Reihenfolge". Der Bundeswahlleiter (in German). Retrieved 2 December 2019.
- ^ "Über mich – Lena Düpont". 30 May 2019. Archived from the original on 30 May 2019. Retrieved 1 September 2024.
- ^ Mia Bartoloni (4 December 2020), Movers and Shakers The Parliament Magazine.
- ^ Mia Bartoloni (26 February 2021), Movers and Shakers The Parliament Magazine.
- ^ Lena Düpont European Parliament.
- ^ Michael Ahlers (6 February 2021), CDU-Parteitag: Althusmann fordert bessere Corona-Strategie Braunschweiger Zeitung.
- ^ Drucksache 18/10450: Niedersächsische Mitglieder der 17. Bundesversammlung am 13. Februar 2022 State Parliament of Lower Saxony.
- ^ "Home | Lena DÜPONT | MEPs | European Parliament". www.europarl.europa.eu. 30 April 1986. Retrieved 1 September 2024.
- ^ Advisory Board on Politics and Public Affairs Quadriga Hochschule Berlin.
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