Barbara Lochbihler

Barbara Lochbihler, MEP

Barbara Lochbihler (born 20 May 1959, Obergünzburg) is an MEP for Germany from Bündnis 90/ Die Grünen.

Affiliations

• Chair, Human Rights
• Member, Conference of Committee Chairs
• Substitute, Foreign Affairs
• Substitute, Delegation for relations with Iran
• Substitute, Delegation for relations with India

Record and Controversies

Declaration of Financial Interests

• Nothing to declare.

Record of Parliamentary Votes

Election Campaign 2009

Barbara Lochbihler pledged to all four issues presented by the Election Campaign:

• to provide leadership in lobbying transparency and ethics,
• to provide leadership in reforming financial architecture,
• to promote a full-scale rethink of the EU trade policy,
• to promote corporate accountability.

Personal Information

Curriculum Vitae

• Studied political science at the Ludwig Maximilian University, Munich; master's degree. Studied social work (Munich), diploma. Head, Older Persons and Service Centre, Haidhausen (1984-1986). Tax official, Kempten.
• Personal parliamentary liaison officer in the Bavarian Regional Assembly, Greens Parliamentary Party (1987-1991).
• Amnesty International Germany (Berlin), General Secretary (1999-2009). Women's International League for Peace and Freedom (Geneva), General Secretary (1992-1999).
• Founder member, German Human Rights Institute (Berlin); founder member, Human Rights Foundation (Berlin). Member of the Board of Trustees, Roland Berger Foundation (Munich). Member of the German UNICEF Committee.
• ASF Rose for Equality. Association of Social-Democratic Women, Swabia. Alice Salomon Prize, Berlin.

Contact

Address:

Parlement européen

Bât. Altiero Spinelli

08H156

60, rue Wiertz / Wiertzstraat 60

B-1047 Bruxelles/Brussel

Phone:

+32(0)2 28 45392

Fax

+32(0)2 28 49392

Email:

barbara.lochbihler AT europarl.europa.eu

Website:

http://www.barbara-lochbihler.de

This article is part of the MEPedia project of Spinwatch.

Resources

• European Parliament, Declaration of Members' Financial Interests: , 11 January 2011, accessed 08 March 2012.
• European Parliament, MEP Directory: Barbara Lochbinder, accessed 08 March 2012.