Cem Özdemir

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Cem Özdemir, MEP

Cem Özdemir (born 21 December 1965, Bad Urach) is an MEP for Germany from Alliance '90/ The Greens.

Affiliations

• Member, Committee on Foreign Affairs
• Member, Delegation to the EU-Turkey Joint Parliamentary Committee
• Member, Delegation to the Euro-Mediterranean Parliamentary Assembly
• Substitute, Committee on Civil Liberties, Justice and Home Affairs
• Substitute, Delegation for relations with the Mashreq countries

Record and Controversies

Declaration of Financial Interests

Professional Activities:

• Since 15 November 2008: Chairman of Alliance '90/ The Greens in Berlin, National Party Headquarters

Paid Functions or Activities:

• Occasional paid guest contributions responding to the demand from newspapers and publishers,
• On demand, occasional paid guest appearances as speaker for commercial events,
• Allowances for council activities in Vodafone Foundation, which engages in educational integration of migrants

Personal Information

Curriculum Vitae

• State education certificate (1988).
• Graduated in social science teaching (1994).
• Transatlantic Fellow, German Marshall Fund of the United States, Washington DC/Brussels.
• Member, Baden-Württemberg Greens Party Regional Executive (1989-1995).
• Member of the Bundestag for Bündnis 90/Die Grünen (1994-2002).
• Board member, Stuttgart German-Turkish Forum e.V. (since 2000).
• Jury member, USable Transatlantic Ideas Competition, Koerber Foundation, Hamburg (since 2003).
• Executive member, 'Deutschland liest vor' story-reading campaign (since 2003).
• Theodor Heuss Medal, Theodor Heuss Foundation (1996).
• Multikulti Man of the Year, Freies Berlin Radio (now Radio Berlin-Brandenburg) (1997).
• Star of Europe, Business Week (2002).
• Global Leader for Tomorrow, World Economic Forum (2002).

Contact

Address:

Parlement européen

Bât. Altiero Spinelli

08H246

60, rue Wiertz / Wiertzstraat 60

B-1047 Bruxelles/Brussel

Phone:

+32 (0)2 28 45446

Email:

cem.ozdemir@europarl.europa.eu

Website:

http://www.cem-ozdemir.de

Resources

• European Parliament, Erklärung der finanziellen Interessen der Mitglieder: Cem Özdemir, 19 December 2008, accessed 23 March 2009.
• European Parliament, MEP Directory: Cem Özdemir, accessed 23 March 2009.