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Gerhard Schick | |
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Gerhard Schick in 2014. | |
| Member of the German Bundestag | |
| In office 2005–2019 | |
| Personal details | |
| Born | (1972-04-18)18 April 1972 (age 53) |
| Nationality | German |
| Political party | Green Party |
| Alma mater | University of Freiburg |
| Profession | Economist |
| Website | www.gerhardschick.net |
Gerhard Schick (born 18 April 1972) is a German economist and finance expert who heads Finance Watch Deutschland. He previously served as a member of the GermanBundestag for theGreen Party.
After completing his secondary school education in 1991 at theGymnasium Hechingen, Schick completed his Community Service and graduated in 1992. Between 1992 and 1998 Schick continued with his economics education at theUniversity of Bamberg,University of Freiburg andComplutense University of Madrid where he was awarded hisDiplom in Economics. Subsequently, until 2001 he was a research associate at the Walter Eucken Institute Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg and then from 2001 to 2004 theMarket Economy Foundation in Berlin. In 2002 he was awarded aPh.D. in Finance from theAlbert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg for his work on "Dual Federalism in Europe".[1] In 2004 he joined theBertelsmann Foundation inGütersloh as a project manager.
Schick has been a member of theGerman Parliament since the2005 federal elections, representingBaden-Württemberg. He has been regularly elected from the land list, having unsuccessfully contested theMannheim constituency.
Schick has been theAlliance 90/The Greens parliamentary group's spokesman on financial policy since 2007. From its inception in 2008, he has been a member of the Financial Markets Panel, which provides parliamentary oversight of the Financial Market Stabilization Agency (FMSA). Following the2013 federal elections, he was elected deputy chairman of the Finance Committee.
Additional to this he has written several publications.[2]
In September 2018, Schick announced that he would resign from his parliamentary seat.[3] He resigned by the end of 2018.
Schick led the creation of a new nongovernmental Organisation called "Bürgerbewegung Finanzwende" (Finance Watch Deutschland),[4] which cooperates withFinance Watch.[5]