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Nadja Yvonne Hirsch | |
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 Nadja Hirsch | |
| Member of the European Parliament | |
| In office 2009–2014 | |
| In office 2017–2019 | |
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| Born | (1978-07-13)13 July 1978 (age 46) Munich,Bavaria |
| Nationality |  Germany |
| Political party | German: Free Democratic Party  EU:Alliance of Liberals and Democrats for Europe |
| Alma mater | Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich |
| Profession | Psychologist |
| Website | https://nadjahirsch.de/ |
Nadja Yvonne Hirsch (born 13 July 1978) is aGermanpolitician who served as aMember of the European Parliament (MEP) for theFree Democratic Party of Germany, part of theAlliance of Liberals and Democrats for Europe, from 2009 until 2014 and from 2017 until 2019.
Hirsch was born inMunich. In 1998 she obtained her university entry level qualification (Abitur) from Edith-Stein-Gymnasium inMunich. From 2001 to 2003, she was a Scholar of theFriedrich Naumann Foundation. In 2005 she graduated inpsychology fromLudwig Maximilian University of Munich and went on to studyeconomics atFernUniversität Hagen. She then worked as a freelance psychologist and mediator and in 2007 entered theInternational Visitor Leadership Program of theUnited States Department of State.
Hirsch became a member of theFree Democratic Party of Germany and of theYoung Liberals in 1999.She was a member of the city council ofMunich from 2002 to 2009. From 2008 to 2009 she also chaired the parliamentary group of theFree Democratic Party of Germany in the city council.
In2009 Hirsch was elected to the European Parliament as the leading candidate of the Free Democratic Party in Bavaria and number 9 on the Federal list of candidates. A member of the parliamentary groupAlliance of Liberals and Democrats for Europe, she served as vice-chairperson of theEuropean Parliament Committee on Employment and Social Affairs and as substitute in theCommittee on Culture and Education. In addition to her committee assignments, Hirsch was a member of the Delegation for relations with the US, the Delegation for relations with the Arab Peninsula and the Delegation for relations with the countries of South Asia.
Having missed re-election in2014, Hirsch returned to the private sector and took on a position as deputy managing director atHandelsblatt Global Edition. She later worked as Head of Communications at Raisin, a Europeanfintech company. In 2017 she set up her own startup, Coachoo, in Munich.
In November 2017, Hirsch again became aMember of the European Parliament, after her party colleagueAlexander Graf Lambsdorff had been elected to theBundestag in theGerman elections. She served on theCommittee on International Trade. In addition, she was a member of the Parliament’s delegation to theTurkey-EU Joint Parliamentary Committee (JPC). In January 2019 she did not win a nomination for the elections in May of the same year.[1]
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