Julia Verlinden | |
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 Verlinden in 2023 | |
| Member of theBundestag forLower Saxony | |
| Assumed office 26 September 2021 | |
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| Born | (1979-01-18)18 January 1979 (age 46) |
| Political party | Greens |
| Alma mater | University of Lüneburg |
Julia Verlinden (born 18 January 1979) is a German politician of theAlliance 90/The Greens who has been serving as a member of theBundestag from the state ofLower Saxony since 2013.[1]
Verlinden was born on 18 January 1979 inBergisch Gladbach.[2] She studied environmental sciences at theUniversity of Lüneburg from 1998 to 2005 and graduated with a diploma.[3] From 2006 to 2013 she was a research associate at theFederal Environment Agency (UBA) in Dessau.[3] In late 2012 she received herDoctor of Philosophy under Thomas Saretzki at her alma mater in a thesis called "Energieeffizienzpolitik als Beitrag zum Klimaschutz", which analyzed the implementation ofEU building directives in Germany.[4] From January 2013 until she moved to the Bundestag in October 2013, she headed the Energy Efficiency Division at the Federal Environment Agency.[3]
From 2002 to 2006 she was a councillor in theLüneburg city council, which she returned to doing starting in 2021.[5] She then became a member of the Lüneburg district council from 2006 to 2011.[5] During this time, she was also a member of the party council for The Greens.[5]
Verlinden became a member of the Bundestag in the2013 German federal election.[6] From 2013 to 2021, she was a member of the Committee for Economic Affairs and Energy and served as her parliamentary group's spokesperson for energy policy.[7][8]
Since 2021, Verlinden has been serving as one of her parliamentary group's deputy chairs, under the leadership of co-chairsBritta Haßelmann andKatharina Dröge.[9]
Verlinden contestedLüchow-Dannenberg – Lüneburg in2013,2017 and2021.[10][11]
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