Lena Düpont

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Lena Düpont
Member of the European Parliament
for Germany
Personal details
Born (1986-04-30) 30 April 1986 (age 38)
Christian Democratic Union
 EU:
European People's Party
Alma materUniversity of Erlangen–Nuremberg

Lena Düpont (born 30 April 1986) is a German politician of the Christian Democratic Union who has been serving as a Member of the European Parliament since 2019.[1]

Education and early career

Düpont studied political science and journalism at the University of Erlangen–Nuremberg. As a legislative advisor, she worked, among others, for Renate Sommer in Brussels and then for Ewa Klamt, Eckhard Pols and Ingrid Pahlmann in Berlin.[citation needed]

Member of the European Parliament

Düpont has been a

Committee on Civil Liberties, Justice and Home Affairs. In this capacity, she has been the parliament's rapporteur on a 2020 law establishing a common border procedure for international protection.[2] In 2021, she also joined the parliament's working group on Frontex, led by Roberta Metsola.[3]

In addition to her committee assignments, Düpont is part of the Parliament's delegation to the EU-Montenegro Stabilisation and Association Parliamentary Committee.[4]

Since 2021, Düpont has been serving as deputy chairwoman of the CDU in Lower Saxony, under the leadership of chairman Bernd Althusmann.[5] She was nominated by her party as delegate to the Federal Convention for the purpose of electing the President of Germany in 2022.[6]

Other activities

  • Quadriga Hochschule Berlin, Member of the Advisory Board on Politics and Public Affairs[7]

References

  1. ^ "Alle Gewählte in alphabetischer Reihenfolge". Der Bundeswahlleiter (in German). Retrieved 2 December 2019.
  2. ^ Mia Bartoloni (4 December 2020), Movers and Shakers The Parliament Magazine.
  3. ^ Mia Bartoloni (26 February 2021), Movers and Shakers The Parliament Magazine.
  4. ^ Lena Düpont European Parliament.
  5. ^ Michael Ahlers (6 February 2021), CDU-Parteitag: Althusmann fordert bessere Corona-Strategie Braunschweiger Zeitung.
  6. ^ Drucksache 18/10450: Niedersächsische Mitglieder der 17. Bundesversammlung am 13. Februar 2022 State Parliament of Lower Saxony.
  7. ^ Advisory Board on Politics and Public Affairs Quadriga Hochschule Berlin.