Nadja Hirsch

Nadja Yvonne Hirsch
Nadja Hirsch
Member of the European Parliament
In office
2009 – 2014
Assumed office
2017
Personal details
Born (1978-07-13) 13 July 1978
Munich, Bavaria
Nationality  Germany
Political party  German:
Free Democratic Party
 EU:
Alliance of Liberals and Democrats for Europe
Alma mater Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich
Profession Psychologist
Website https://nadjahirsch.de/

Nadja Yvonne Hirsch (born 13 July 1978) is a German politician, who currently serves as a Member of the European Parliament (MEP) for the Free Democratic Party of Germany, part of the Alliance of Liberals and Democrats for Europe. She previously served in that role from 2009 to 2014.

Education and career

Hirsch was born in Munich. In 1998 she obtained her university entry level qualification (Abitur) from Edith-Stein-Gymnasium in Munich. From 2001 to 2003, she was a Scholar of the Friedrich Naumann Foundation. In 2005 she graduated in Psychology from Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich and went on to study Economy at FernUniversität Hagen. She then worked as a freelance psychologist and mediator and in 2007 entered the International Visitor Leadership Program of the United States Department of State.

Political career

Hirsch became a member of the Free Democratic Party of Germany and of the Young Liberals in 1999. She was a member of the city council of Munich from 2002 to 2009. From 2008 to 2009 she also chaired the parliamentary group of the Free Democratic Party of Germany in the city council.

In 2009 Hirsch was elected to the European Parliament as the leading candidate of the Free Democratic Party in Bavaria and number 9 on the Federal list of candidates. A member of the parliamentary group Alliance of Liberals and Democrats for Europe, she served as vice-chairperson of the European Parliament Committee on Employment and Social Affairs and as substitute in the Committee on Culture and Education. In addition to her committee assignments, Hirsch was a member of the Delegation for relations with the US, the Delegation for relations with the Arab Peninsula and the Delegation for relations with the countries of South Asia.

Having missed re-election in 2014, Hirsch returned to the private sector and took on a position as deputy managing director at Handelsblatt Global Edition. She later worked as Head of Communications at Raisin, one of the most famous Fintechs in Europe. In 2017 she set up her own startup, Coachoo, in Munich.

In November 2017, Hirsch again became a Member of the European Parliament, after her party colleague Alexander Graf Lambsdorff had been elected to the Bundestag in the German elections. She has since been serving on the Committee on International Trade. In addition, she is a member of the Parliament’s delegation to the Turkey-EU Joint Parliamentary Committee (JPC).

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