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Amelia Andersdotter | |
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 Official portrait, 2012 | |
| Member of the European Parliament forSweden | |
| In office 1 December 2011 – 25 May 2014 | |
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| Born | (1987-08-30)30 August 1987 (age 38) |
| Political party | Pirate Party (Greens–EFA) |
| Alma mater | Lund University (BSc, BLA),Uppsala University (MSc) |
| Website | Amelia Andersdotter |
Amelia Anna Matilda Katarina Andersdotter (born 30 August 1987) is aSwedish politician and formerMember of the European Parliament (2011–2014), elected on thePirate Party list in the2009 election.
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Amelia joined the Piratpartiet shortly after its formation in 2006. From June 2007 to March 2010 she was the international coordinator ofUng Pirat, the party's youth wing. In this capacity she coordinated contacts with other groups in Sweden, other pirate political movements around the world, and the organization's international policy viewpoints.
In 2009, she was named the second candidate on Piratpartiet's list for theEuropean Parliament elections in June of that year. While Piratpartiet did not gain enough votes for a second MEP under thetreaty of Nice, they did get enough votes to award her a seat under the terms of the newtreaty of Lisbon that was to come into effect December that year.Difficulties with the ratification process of the treaty of Lisbon meant that the seat would not be granted until December 2011.[1] From 2011 to 2014, she was the youngest member of the European Parliament.[2]
In the interim period between her election and her inauguration, she spent much time travelling to different parts of the world talking about her experiences as a young politician and as an advocate of new ideas in information policy. Amongst others theArs Electronica festival inLinz, Austria[3] and a visit toSouth Korea[4] in 2010, which later inspired her political involvement on the Korean peninsula delegation in the European Parliament. She also travelled extensively inside Europe during this time, involving herself in the work of Pirate Parties around Europe.
During her term in office, she focused her efforts around information policy. She was a part of theCommittee on Industry, Research and Energy. She was also a substitute member of theCommittee on International Trade and theCommittee on Budgetary Control. She also served as a full member of the parliamentary delegation to theKorean peninsula, and a substitute member of the delegation for theAndean community.[5]
A longtime critic of theAnti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement, her advice to reject it was carried by the ITRE committee, the first of parliamentary committees to propose a rejection of the agreement. Other committees soon followed in the rejection.[6] The agreement was soundly rejected by the European Parliament.[7]
Other areas she worked on include a proposal for a recast of the Union's Re-use of Public Sector Information Directive where she publicly criticized the Swedish government for resisting the proposed changes in access and cost regimes.[8] She is also a supporter of public investments in fibre-to-the-home infrastructures.[9]
After working in the European Parliament, Amelia was a guest researcher atCentre for Internet and Society (India) and technical standards researcher atArticle19 andANEC (organisation). She made large contributions to the IEEE 802E Privacy Recommendations standard as well as the ISO PC 3117 committee work on privacy and security for home internet-of-things appliances. In later years, she has continued technical standards work to promote power saving features and sustainable hardware on behalf of the operator and device manufacturer communities.
Amelia Andersdotter was born on 30 August 1987 inUppsala, Sweden, the first of three children. Her mother, Lotta Lille, is a journalist, and her father, Anders Lundquist, is a teacher and chess tutor. Her sisters are Ulrika and Karolina. She also has a half-brother on her father's side, Eirik Lundquist. After graduating at Rosendalsgymnasiet in Uppsala, she attendeduniversity in Lund, where she studiedmathematics,physics,Spanish andbusiness law. However, Amelia was elected before completing her studies.[11]
She has lived in many parts of Europe and India, includingLund,Uppsala,Bucharest,Ghent,Bangalore andBrussels.
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