Julia Verlinden

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Born (1979-01-18) 18 January 1979 (age 47)
Julia Verlinden
Verlinden in 2023
Member of the Bundestag
for Lower Saxony
Assumed office
26 September 2021
Personal details
Born (1979-01-18) 18 January 1979 (age 47)
PartyGreens
Alma materUniversity of Lüneburg

Julia Verlinden (born 18 January 1979) is a German politician of the Alliance 90/The Greens who has been serving as a member of the Bundestag from the state of Lower Saxony since 2013.[1]

Verlinden was born on 18 January 1979 in Bergisch Gladbach.[2] She studied environmental sciences at the University of Lüneburg from 1998 to 2005 and graduated with a diploma.[3] From 2006 to 2013 she was a research associate at the Federal Environment Agency (UBA) in Dessau.[3] In late 2012 she received her Doctor of Philosophy under Thomas Saretzki at her alma mater in a thesis called "Energieeffizienzpolitik als Beitrag zum Klimaschutz", which analyzed the implementation of EU 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]

Political career

From 2002 to 2006 she was a councillor in the Lüneburg 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 the 2013 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-chairs Britta Haßelmann and Katharina Dröge.[9]

Verlinden contested Lüchow-Dannenberg – Lüneburg in 2013, 2017 and 2021.[10][11]

Other activities

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