Peter Simon

Peter Simon, MEP

Peter Simon (born 04 April 1967, Mannheim) is an MEP for Germany from Social Democratic Party of Germany.

Affiliations

• Member, ECON Committee on Economic and Monetary Affairs
• Member, DCAS Delegation to the EU-Kazakhstan, EU-Kyrgyzstan and EU-Uzbekistan Parliamentary Cooperation Committees, and for relations with Tajikistan, Turkmenistan and Mongolia
• Member, DKOR Delegation for relations with the Korean Peninsula
• Substitute, REGI Committee on Regional Development
• Substitute, D-CN Delegation for relations with the People's Republic of China

Record and Controversies

Declaration of Financial Interests

• Erklärung der finanziellen Interessen der Mitglieder: Simon, Peter

Record of Parliamentary Votes

Election Campaign 2009

Peter Simon has not pledged to any of the 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.

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Personal Information

Curriculum Vitae

• School-leaving certificate, Feudenheim Grammar School, Mannheim (1986); studied law at the Ruprecht Karl University, Heidelberg (1986-1992); first state law examination (1992); second state law examination (1995); trainee, Koblenz Supreme Provincial Court of Appeal (1992-1995).
• Lawyer, Legal Affairs Office of the City of Mannheim (1995-1996); personal liaison officer of the Principal Mayor of the City of Mannheim, Dr Norbert Egger (1996-1999); head of the Europe Office of the City of Mannheim (1999-2007); Senior City Legal Officer; head of economic development in the Rhein-Neckar metropolitan region (2007-2009).
• Member, European Policy Committee of the SPD party executive, European Affairs Committee of the SPD Regional Executive for Baden-Württemberg, European/International Affairs Committee of the Federal Executive of the Social Democratic Association for Local Government Policy; member of the executive of the Mannheim SPD Association.
• Representative of the Federal Association of German Municipal Umbrella Organisations in the Foreign Ministry for the drafting of the EU Draft Constitutional Treaty (2002-2003).
• Co-opted member of the board of the Association of German Towns and Municipalities; member of the advisory board of the Baden-Württemberg Europe Centre of the Europe Union, member of the United Services Trade Union Ver.di and member of the Workers' Welfare Organisation (AWO).

Contact

Address:

Parlement européen

Bât. Altiero Spinelli

12G146

60, rue Wiertz / Wiertzstraat 60

B-1047 Bruxelles/Brussel

Phone:

+32(0)2 28 45558

Fax

+32(0)2 28 49558

Email:

peter.simon AT europarl.europa.eu

Website:

This article is part of the MEPedia project of Spinwatch.

Resources

• European Parliament, Declaration of Members' Financial Interests: Peter Simon, 21 December 2012, accessed 16 April 2012.
• European Parliament, MEP Directory: , accessed 16 April 2011.