Hannah Neumann
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{{Short description|German politician (born 1984)}}
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Hannah Neumann (born 3 April 1984) is a German politician of the Alliance 90/The Greens who has been serving as a Member of the European Parliament since 2019.{{cite web|url=https://www.bundeswahlleiter.de/europawahlen/2019/gewaehlte/bund-99.html|title=Alle Gewählte in alphabetischer Reihenfolge|work=Der Bundeswahlleiter|language=de|access-date=2 December 2019}}{{Cite web|title=Hannah Neumann {{!}} Heinrich Böll Stiftung {{!}} Brussels office - European Union|url=https://eu.boell.org/en/person/hannah-neumann|website=Heinrich-Böll-Stiftung|language=en|access-date=2020-05-18}}
Early life and education
Neumann studied media studies at TU Ilmenau from 2002 until 2007 and political science and media studies at Free University of Berlin from 2008 until 2012.{{Cite web |title=Hannah Neumann {{!}} DGAP |url=https://dgap.org/de/user/24307/dr-hannah-neumann |access-date=2023-12-17 |website=dgap.org}} During her studies, she spent a year abroad at Ateneo de Manila University from 2004 until 2005.
Career
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Neumann worked as legislative assistant to Tom Koenigs (2013-2014) and as chief of staff to Omid Nouripour (2014-2016) in the German Bundestag.{{cite news|url=https://www.handelsblatt.com/politik/international/europawahl/europawahl-das-sind-die-spannendsten-eu-abgeordneten-die-neu-ins-parlament-eingezogen-sind/24390502.html |title=Europawahl: Das sind die spannendsten EU-Abgeordneten, die neu ins Parlament eingezogen sind|work= Handelsblatt|date= 29 May 2019|language=DE}} From 2018 until 2019, she was an associate fellow at the German Council on Foreign Relations (DGAP).{{citation needed|date=November 2020}}
Neumann has been a Member of the European Parliament since the 2019 European elections. She has since been serving on the Subcommittee on Human Rights and the Subcommittee on Security and Defence. In addition, she serves as substitute in the Committee on Foreign Affairs. In 2022, she joined the Committee of Inquiry to investigate the use of Pegasus and equivalent surveillance spyware.{{Cite web|url=https://www.europarl.europa.eu/sedcms/documents/PRIORITY_INFO/558/Composition%20nominative%20des%20commissions%20PEGA%20COVI%20ING2_24.03.2022_EN.pdf|title=Members of the Committee of Inquiry to investigate the use of Pegasus and equivalent surveillance spyware, European Parliament|website=www.europarl.europa.eu|accessdate=18 December 2022}}{{Cite web|url=https://www.europarl.europa.eu/news/en/press-room/20220321IPR25923/parliament-names-meps-to-sit-on-three-new-committees|title=Parliament names MEPs to sit on three new committees | News |website=www.europarl.europa.eu|date=24 March 2022|accessdate=18 December 2022}}
In addition to her committee assignments, Neumann chairs the Parliament's delegation for relations with the Arab Peninsula.{{Cite web|url=https://www.europarl.europa.eu/meps/en/197464/HANNAH_NEUMANN/home|title=Home | Hannah NEUMANN | MEPs | European Parliament|website=www.europarl.europa.eu|date=3 April 1984 |accessdate=18 December 2022}} She is also a member of the European Parliament Intergroup on Anti-Racism and Diversity,[https://www.europarl.europa.eu/about-parliament/files/organisation-and-rules/organisation/intergroups/list-of-members-anti-racism-diversity.pdf Intergroup on Anti-Racism and Diversity, European Parliament] the European Parliament Intergroup on LGBT Rights{{Cite web|url=https://lgbti-ep.eu/who-we-are/members/|title=Members – The European Parliament's LGBTI Intergroup|website=lgbti-ep.eu|accessdate=18 December 2022}} and the European Parliament Intergroup on Anti-Corruption.{{Cite web|url=https://www.europarl.europa.eu/about-parliament/files/organisation-and-rules/organisation/intergroups/list-of-members-anti-corruption.pdf|title=Intergroup on Anti-Corruption, European Parliament|website=www.europarl.europa.eu|accessdate=18 December 2022}}
In the negotiations to form a so-called traffic light coalition of the Social Democratic Party (SPD), the Green Party and the Free Democratic Party (FDP) following the 2021 federal elections, Neumann was part of her party's delegation in the working group on foreign policy, defence, development cooperation and human rights, co-chaired by Heiko Maas, Omid Nouripour and Alexander Graf Lambsdorff.{{Cite web|url=https://www.deutschlandfunk.de/ampel-koalition-das-sind-die-verhandlungsteams-von-spd.1939.de.html|title=Ampel-Koalition: Das sind die Verhandlungsteams von SPD, Grünen und FDP|website=www.deutschlandfunk.de|date=October 27, 2021|language=DE|accessdate=18 December 2022}}{{Dead link|date=July 2024 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}
In early 2025, Germany's Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution found that Neumann's office had been targeted by a hacking campaign; according to Politico, the group thought to be behind the attack was a hacking collective associated with the Iranian Revolutionary Guard, known as APT42.Antoaneta Roussi and Nicholas Vinocur (23 April 2025), [https://www.politico.eu/article/european-parliament-iran-delegation-chair-victim-tehran-linked-hacking-hannah-neumann/ European Parliament’s Iran delegation chair victim of Tehran-linked hacking] Politico Europe.
Other activities
- European Council on Foreign Relations (ECFR), Member of the Council (since 2023)[https://ecfr.eu/council/ Members] European Council on Foreign Relations (ECFR).
- German Council on Foreign Relations (DGAP), Member of the Presidium (since 2019){{Cite web|url=https://dgap.org/de/presse/news/neues-dgap-praesidium|title=Neues DGAP-Präsidium | DGAP|website=dgap.org|accessdate=18 December 2022}}
- Berghof Foundation, Member of the Advisory Council{{Cite web|url=https://berghof-foundation.org/about/governance|title=Leadership and governance|website=Berghof Foundation|accessdate=18 December 2022}}
Political positions
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 Arctic liquefied natural gas (LNG) project, due to climate change concerns.{{Cite news|url=https://www.reuters.com/business/energy/eu-lawmakers-urge-france-germany-italy-ditch-arctic-lng-2-support-2021-05-19/|title=EU lawmakers urge France, Germany, Italy to ditch Arctic LNG 2 support|first1=Kate|last1=Abnett|first2=Simon|last2=Jessop|date=19 May 2021|work=Reuters|accessdate=18 December 2022|via=www.reuters.com}}
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