Reinhard Bütikofer

Reinhard Bütikofer is the EGP Co-Chair, and MEP for the German Green party Bündnis90/Die Grünen. He also serves as 1st Vice-Chair of the European Parliament Delegation for Relations with China.

Reinhard Bütikofer is a Member of the European Parliament (Greens/EFA) and the Co-Chair of the European Green Party (EGP). He sits on the Committee of Industry, Research and Energy (ITRE) and is a substitute member of the Committee on Foreign Affairs (AFET) as well as the Sub-Committees on Security and Defence (SEDE) and Human Rights (DROI).

He is a Member of the Board of Directors of the European Endowment for Democracy (EED) and delegated Chair of the AFET Working Group on External Financing Instruments (WG EFI). He is Vice-Chair of the European Parliament’s Delegation for Relations with the People’s Republic of China and a Member of the Delegation to the United States.

Before getting elected to the European Parliament in 2009, Mr. Bütikofer was the co-chair of the German Green Party Bündnis90 / Die Grünen (from 2002 until 2008). He was the party’s Secretary General from 1998 until 2002. Prior to that he served as the Chair of the Greens in the Federal State of Baden-Württemberg. From 1988 until 1996 he served as a Member of the Baden-Württemberg State Parliament.

His engagement with the German Greens began when he was elected as a member of the city council in Heidelberg in 1984.

Besides his positions in the party and parliament Mr. Bütikofer is a member of the advisory board of the American Jewish Committee’s Ramer Center in Berlin, the Europe/Transatlantic advisory board of the Heinrich Böll Foundation, and the German-Chinese Dialogue Forum.

EGP Co-Chairperson

Contact

reinhard.buetikofer@europeangreens.eu

Assistant EGP office
Benedetta de Marte
benedetta.demarte@europeangreens.eu
phone: +32 (0) 2 626 03 32

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Websites
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Working Groups
Foreign and Security Policy
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Member Parties - Countries

Die Grünen - Austria
Strana Zelenych - Czech Republic
Bündnis 90/Die Grünen - Germany
Lehet Más a Politika / LMP - Hungary
Déi gréng - Luxembourg
Zieloni - Poland
Slovakia
Grüne / Les Verts / I Verdi - Switzerland

Files:

CV Reinhard Bütikofer.pdf

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