ABOUT

Work Experience
2009–present Member of the European Parliament for the electoral district of Middle Rhine (Cologne, Bonn, Leverkusen, Rhein-Sieg-and Rhein-Erft-Kreis), North Rhine-Westphalia
since 2014 Member, Committee on Legal Affairs
since 2017 Speaker of the EPP group, Committee on Legal Affairs
2014-2016 Vice-Chair, Committee on Legal Affairs
2009-2014 Member and since 2014 Substitute Member, Committee on Civil Liberties, Justice and Home Affairs
Vice-Chair of the Delegation for relations with Australia and New Zealand
Member of the Delegation for relations with the countries of South Asia
2012-2014 Member, Special Committee on Organised Crime, Corruption and Money Laundering
2009-2014 Member, Delegation to the Euro-Latin American Parliamentary Assembly
2000–2009 Lecturer in European Affairs at the RheinAhrCampus Remagen, University of Applied Sciences of Koblenz
1994–present Lawyer
1994–2000 Citizens' adviser of the European Commission in its regional office in Bonn
1994–1995 Project manager and editor of a television documentary on the European subsidiarity principle for CineDokumentFilm, Munich
1990–1991 Assistant at the UN Department of Technical Co-operation for Development, New York