Alexander Radwan | |
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| Member of theBundestag | |
| Assumed office 2013 | |
| Member of the European Parliament | |
| In office 1999–2008 | |
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| Born | (1964-08-30)30 August 1964 (age 61) |
| Political party |  German:Christian Social Union  EU:European People's Party |
| Profession | Lawyer |
Alexander Gamal Radwan (born 30 August 1964) is a German politician.
Radwan studiedautomotive engineering, specializing in aircraft, at theMunich University of Applied Sciences, graduated in 1987, with a degree in engineering. He then studied law, taking the second state examination, at theLudwig Maximilian University of Munich in 1995. In same year, he was admitted to the bar. Until 1999, he was employed as a department head, of an international company in the information and telecommunications sector.[1]
Between 1999 and 2008, Radwan was aMember of the European Parliament forBavaria with theChristian Social Union in Bavaria, Member of the Bureau of theEuropean People's Party and sat on theEuropean Parliament'sCommittee on Economic and Monetary Affairs.
He was a substitute for theCommittee on Legal Affairs and a vice-chair of the Delegation for relations with theMashreq countries. Between 2004 and 2008, he was the EPP parliamentary group’s spokesperson on economic affairs.
In the2008 Bavarian state elections, Radwan was elected to theLandtag of Bavaria. During his term in office, he served on the Committee on Budgetary and Finance Affairs as well as on the Committee on Federal and European Affairs. Within his parliamentary group, he was a member of the working group on defence policy.
In late 2012, Radwan andIlse Aigner, who was about to leave national politics to run for state office, announced that they would switch electoral districts. As a consequence, Radwan took over Aigner’s district and ran for a seat in the Bundestag.[2]
Radwan has been a member of the GermanBundestag since the2013 federal elections. He has since been serving on the Finance Committee, the Committee on Foreign Affairs and its Subcommittee on the United Nations, International Organizations and Globalization. In addition, he is a member of the parliament’s delegation to theParliamentary Assembly of the Mediterranean.
As member of the Committee on Foreign Affairs, Radwan serves as his parliamentary group’srapporteur on relations with theMiddle East, theMaghreb andSudan. On the Finance Committee, he is the group’s rapporteur on theEuro and thebanking union.
In the negotiations to form acoalition government under the leadership ofChancellorAngela Merkel following the2017 federal elections, Radwan was part of the working group on foreign policy, led byUrsula von der Leyen,Gerd Müller andSigmar Gabriel.
After serving asOf counsel with the Munich office of law firm GSK Stockmann + Kollegen until 2015, Radwan and former finance ministerTheo Waigel joined Waigel Rechtsanwälte in 2016.[3]
In addition to his legal practice, Radwan holds the following positions:
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