Kati Piri
| Kati Piri | |
|---|---|
 Kati Piri in 2014 | |
| Member of the European Parliament for the Netherlands | |
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Assumed office 1 July 2014 | |
| Personal details | |
| Born |
8 April 1979 Celldömölk, Hungary |
| Political party | Labour Party |
| Alma mater | University of Groningen |
Kati Piri (born 8 April 1979) is a Hungarian-born Dutch politician, she has been a Member of the European Parliament (MEP) for the Labour Party representing the Netherlands since July 2014.
Career
Piri was born in on 8 April 1979 in Celldömölk, Hungary. She went to the Christian Gymnasium in Utrecht between 1991 and 1997. Piri studied the first years of pedagogy at the University of Groningen between 1998 and 2000 and then switched to international relations, graduating in 2007.[1]
Piri worked as a political advisor to the Labour Party delegation in the European Parliament between 2006 and 2008. In that latter year she became political advisor for foreign policy to the European Parliament group the Labour Party is in, the Progressive Alliance of Socialists and Democrats.[1] She worked as an advisor to the delegation working on relations with Armenia, Azerbaijan and Georgia. In 2011 Piri worked some months at the Wiardi Beckman Stichting, a think thank linked to the Labour Party. Later that year she became programme manager for the Southern-Caucasus and Moldova at the Netherlands Institute for Multiparty Democracy.[1]
Member of the European Parliament, 2014–present
Piri occupied the third place on the Labour Party list for the European Parliament elections of 2014, after Paul Tang and Agnes Jongerius. She cited upholding democratic standards and the respect for human rights as internal motivations to take up the candidacy.[2] She was elected to the European Parliament in May 2014.[1]
In the European Parliament, Piri is member of the Committee on Foreign Affairs and member of the Delegation to the EU-Ukraine Parliamentary Cooperation Committee and Delegation to the Euronest Parliamentary Assembly.[3] She was part of the parliament's mission to observe Ukraine's 2014 parliamentary elections, led by Andrej Plenkovic.[4]
In 2016, Piri drafted the Parliament's response to the European Commission's annual progress report on Turkey's EU membership.[5]
References
- 1 2 3 4 "Drs. K. (Kati) Piri" (in Dutch). Parlement.com. Retrieved 25 January 2015.
- ↑ Antje Koelewijn (13 May 2014). "Interview met Kati Piri, de nr. drie van de lijst voor Europa" (in Dutch). Partij van de Arbeid. Retrieved 25 January 2015.
- ↑ "Kati Piri". European Parliament. Retrieved 25 January 2015.
- ↑ Jeanette Minns (October 9, 2014), Parliament's mission to Ukrainian elections European Voice.
- ↑ Maïa de La Baume (April 14, 2016), MEPs vote to criticize Turkey on democracy Politico Europe.