Kerstin Westphal

Kerstin Westphal, MEP

Kerstin Westphal (born 11 September 1962, Hamburg) is an MEP for Germany from Social Democratic Party of Germany.

Affiliations

• Member, REGI Committee on Regional Development
• Member, D-US Delegation for relations with the United States
• Substitute, IMCO Committee on the Internal Market and Consumer Protection
• Substitute, DEEA Delegation for relations with Switzerland and Norway and to the EU-Iceland Joint Parliamentary Committee and the European Economic Area (EEA) Joint Parliamentary Committee

Record and Controversies

Declaration of Financial Interests

• Erklärung der finanziellen Interessen der Mitglieder: Westphal, Kerstin

Record of Parliamentary Votes

Election Campaign 2009

Kerstin Westphal has not yet 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

• Trained in child care in Scheinfeld (1980-1982); intermediate vocational course, Würzburg (1982-1983); trained as a nursery teacher and care worker in Schweinfurt (1988-1990). Traineeships at kindergartens and child day care centres, at Heuchelhof All-day School, Falkenhof Youth Centre and institutions for people with multiple disabilities. Children's nurse at St Josefs-Stift Eisingen GmbH (1984-1988); care worker at St Josefs-Stift Eisingen GmbH (1991-2005).
• Representative of the Franconia district on the Federal Women's Committee of the Young Socialists (1985-1990); vice-chair, Bavaria regional executive of the Young Socialists (1988-1994); vice-chair, Social Democratic Women's working party in Lower Franconia (1996-1998); vice-chair, Schweinfurt/Kitzingen area SPD (1996-1998); chair, Schweinfurt Central SPD (1999-2003).

Contact

Address:

Parlement européen

Bât. Altiero Spinelli

12G351

60, rue Wiertz / Wiertzstraat 60

B-1047 Bruxelles/Brussel

Phone:

+32(0)2 28 45534

Fax

+32(0)2 28 49534

Email:

kerstin.westphal AT europarl.europa.eu

Website:

http://www.kerstin-westphal.de

This article is part of the MEPedia project of Spinwatch.

Resources

• European Parliament, Declaration of Members' Financial Interests: Kerstin Westphal, 22 March 2012, accessed 16 April 2012.
• European Parliament, MEP Directory: Kerstin Westphal, accessed 16 April 2011.