Metin Hakverdi
Metin Hakverdi | |
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 Metin Hakverdi in 2014 | |
| Member of the Bundestag | |
| Assumed office 2013 | |
| Preceded by | Hans-Ulrich Klose |
| Personal details | |
| Born | 25 June 1969 Hamburg, West Germany (now Germany) |
| Political party | SPD |
| Alma mater | |
Metin Hakverdi (born 25 June 1969) is a German lawyer and politician of the Social Democratic Party (SPD) who has been serving as a member of the Bundestag for the Hamburg-Bergedorf-Harburg constituency[1] since the 2013 German federal election.[2]
Early life and education
[edit]Hakverdi was born in Hamburg to a Turkish father and a German mother from East Germany. Much of his maternal family live in the United States.
He attended high school in Simi Valley, California, in 1985/86 and studied law at the Christian-Albrecht University in Kiel and at Indiana University’s Maurer School of Law.
Political career
[edit]Career in state politics
[edit]Before being elected to the Bundestag, Hakverdi was a member of the Parliament of the Free and Hanseatic City of Hamburg from 2008 to 2013. During his time in Hamburg Parliament, he served on the Budget Committee, among others.
Member of the German Parliament, 2013–present
[edit]Hakverdi currently serves on the Bundestag’s Budget Committee[3] as well as the Committee on European Union Affairs.[4] He is a member of the German-American Parliamentary Friendship Group, a member of Atlantikbrücke, a member of the German-Israeli Parliamentary Friendship Group. Within his parliamentary group, he has been chairing a working group on relations with North America since 2018.[5]
Hakverdi was a John F. Kennedy Memorial Policy Fellow at Harvard University[6] and a Distinguished Visitor at the American Institute for Contemporary German Studies at Johns Hopkins University.[7]
Other activities
[edit]- German Council on Foreign Relations (DGAP), Member[8]
- German United Services Trade Union (ver.di), Member[9]
References
[edit]- ^ "Deutscher Bundestag - Abgeordnete". Deutscher Bundestag (in German). Retrieved 6 March 2022.
- ^ "Metin Hakverdi, MdB". SPD-Bundestagsfraktion (in German). 23 September 2013. Retrieved 19 March 2020.
- ^ "German Bundestag - Budget Committee". German Bundestag. Retrieved 6 March 2022.
- ^ "German Bundestag - Committee on European Union Affairs". German Bundestag. Retrieved 6 March 2022.
- ^ DW Brent Goff talks to German lawmaker Metin Hakverdi about anti-Trump op-ed in the New York Times Deutsche Welle, September 6, 2018.
- ^ "Hakverdi - John F. Kennedy Memorial Policy Fellow 2020". Retrieved 7 March 2022.
- ^ "AICGS". AICGS. Retrieved 6 March 2022.
- ^ Metin Hakverdi Bundestag.
- ^ Metin Hakverdi Bundestag.
External links
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- Official website (in German)
- Bundestag biography (in English)
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- Members of the Bundestag 2017–2021
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