Hannah Neumann | |
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| Member of the European Parliament forGermany | |
| Assumed office 2 July 2019 | |
| Personal details | |
| Born | (1984-04-03)3 April 1984 (age 41) |
| Party |  GermanAlliance 90/The Greens  EUEuropean Green Party |
| Children | 3 |
| Alma mater | Free University of Berlin Technische Universität Ilmenau |
| Occupation | Peace researcher, politician |
| Website | hannahneumann |
Hannah Neumann (born 3 April 1984) is a German politician of theAlliance 90/The Greens who has been serving as aMember of the European Parliament since 2019. She was re-elected in the2024 European Parliament election.[1][2]
In parliament, Neumann focuses on foreign policy and human rights. Since 2024, she has served as the Chair of the Delegation for relations with Iran.
Neumann studiedmedia studies atTU Ilmenau from 2002 until 2007 andpolitical science andmedia studies at theFree University of Berlin from 2008 until 2012.[3] During her studies, she spent a year abroad atAteneo de Manila University in thePhilippines from 2004 until 2005. She received herDoctorate in 2012 with a thesis on the peace process in the Philippines.
Prior to her election to the European Parliament, Neumann worked as alegislative assistant to Tom Koenigs (2013–2014) and as chief of staff toOmid Nouripour (2014–2016) in the GermanBundestag.[4] From 2018 until 2019, she was an associate fellow at theGerman Council on Foreign Relations (DGAP), focusing on arms exports and peace policy.[5]
Neumann was first elected to the European Parliament in the2019 European elections.
During her first term (2019–2024), she served on theSubcommittee on Human Rights (DROI) and theSubcommittee on Security and Defence (SEDE). She was also a substitute member of theCommittee on Foreign Affairs (AFET). In 2022, she joined the Committee of Inquiry to investigate the use ofPegasus and equivalent surveillancespyware.[6][7] From 2019 to 2024, Neumann chaired the Parliament's delegation for relations with theArab Peninsula (D-ARP).[8]
Following the2021 German federal elections, Neumann was part of the Green Party's delegation in the foreign policy working group during the coalition negotiations, co-chaired byHeiko Maas,Omid Nouripour andAlexander Graf Lambsdorff.[9]
Neumann was re-elected in the2024 European Parliament election. In the Tenth European Parliament, she became the Chair of the Delegation for relations with Iran (D-IR), succeedingCornelia Ernst.[10] She continues to serve as a member of the Committee on Foreign Affairs (AFET) and the Subcommittee on Security and Defence (SEDE), while moving to a substitute role for the Delegation for relations with the Arab Peninsula.[11]
In early 2025, Germany'sFederal Office for the Protection of the Constitution found that Neumann's office had been targeted by a hacking campaign. According toPolitico, the group thought to be behind the attack was a hacking collective associated with theIranian Revolutionary Guard, known asAPT42.[12]
She is a member of the European Parliament Intergroup on Anti-Racism and Diversity,[13] theEuropean Parliament Intergroup on LGBT Rights[14] and the European Parliament Intergroup on Anti-Corruption.[15]
Neumann advocates for a feminist foreign policy and stricter controls onarms exports. She has been a vocal critic of the Iranian government, particularly regarding its human rights violations and the persecution of minorities such as theBaháʼí community.[16] She has campaigned for the inclusion of theIslamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) on the EU terrorist list.
In May 2021, Neumann joined a group of 39 mostly Green Party lawmakers from the European Parliament who in a letter urged the leaders of Germany, France and Italy not to support Arctic LNG 2, a $21 billion Russian Arcticliquefied natural gas (LNG) project, due to climate change concerns.[17]
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