Doris Barnett | |
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 Barnett at the 2019OSCEPA conference in Denmark | |
| Member of theBundestag | |
| In office 1994–2021 | |
| Personal details | |
| Born | (1953-05-22)22 May 1953 (age 71) Ludwigshafen am Rhein,West Germany (nowGermany) |
| Citizenship | German |
| Nationality |  Germany |
| Political party | SPD |
| Children | 1 |
| Alma mater | University of Mainz |
| Occupation | Politician |
Doris Barnett (born 22 May 1953) is a Germanpolitician of theSocial Democratic Party (SPD) who served as a member of the GermanBundestag from 1994 to 2021, representingLudwigshafen/Frankenthal.
Barnett first became a member of the GermanBundestag in the1994 federal elections, representing the Ludwigshafen/Frankenthal electoral district. In the 1994 and 1998 elections, her opponent of the CDU was incumbent ChancellorHelmut Kohl.[1] For her election campaign in1998, she recruitedMarc S. Ellenbogen as her advisor.[2][3]
Barnett was part of the SPD parliamentary group’s leadership from 1998. Within the group, she served as a member of the working group on the world economy between 2003 and 2013.
Barnett was a member of the Committee on Labour and Social Affairs between 1994 and 2005. From 2002 to 2005, she also served on the parliament’sCouncil of Elders, which – among other duties – determines daily legislative agenda items and assigns committee chairpersons based on party representation.
A long-time member of the Budget Committee and its Sub-Committee on European Affairs, Barnett served as her parliamentary group'srapporteur on the budget of theFederal Foreign Office, including Germany’shumanitarian aid. In this capacity, she also belonged to the SPD working group on the national budget. From 2018, she chaired the Sub-Committee on European Affairs. In 2019, she also joined the Committee on Economic Affairs and Development.
In addition to her committee assignments, Barnett served as deputy chairwoman of the German-Russian Parliamentary Friendship Group from 2018 to 2021.
Barnett was part of the German delegation to theParliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe from 2006 to 2021, where she served on the Committee on Political Affairs and Democracy. In addition, she was the chairwoman of the German delegation to theParliamentary Assembly of the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE) from 2009. In that capacity, she chaired the Assembly’s observer mission during the2019 Ukrainian presidential election.[4]
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