Irina von Wiese
Member of the European Parliament
for London
In office
2 July 2019 – 31 January 2020
Preceded byDr Charles Tannock
Succeeded byConstituency abolished
Personal details
Born (1967-09-11) 11 September 1967
Cologne, West Germany
(now Germany)
NationalityBritish, German
Political partyLiberal Democrats
Children1
Alma materHarvard University

Irina Stephanie von Wiese und Kaiserswaldau[1] (born 11 September 1967) is a British politician, who was a Liberal Democrat Member of the European Parliament (MEP) for London between 2019 and the United Kingdom's withdrawal from the EU.[2][3]

Career

In a council by-election in 2017, she stood unsuccessfully for election in the ward of Avonmore and Brook Green in Hammersmith and Fulham, coming third.[1] She unsuccessfully stood in the Ravenscourt Park ward at the 2018 Hammersmith and Fulham borough election.[4]

She was elected a Member of the European Parliament for the London region in the 2019 European Parliament election, on the Liberal Democrat party list, assuming office on 2 July 2019. She sat within the Renew Europe group of liberal political parties and served as Vice-Chair on the European Parliament's Subcommittee on Human Rights (DROI).[5]

Until at least August 2019, she was formerly the Liberal Democrat prospective parliamentary candidate for Hammersmith in the 2019 United Kingdom general election.[6][7] She was an unsuccessful candidate for the 2021 London Assembly election.[8] She was elected to serve as a councillor for the Borough & Bankside ward of Southwark London Borough Council in May 2022. She is standing again in the 2024 London Assembly election.[9]

Personal life

Wiese holds both German and British citizenship.[10] She earned a Master of Public Administration (MPA) degree from Harvard University.[10] She has one teenage daughter[11] and has housed refugees in her London home since 2016, working with the charity Refugees at Home.[11]

References

  1. 1 2 "2017 council by-election results". LBHF. 15 May 2017.
  2. ↑ "Brexit Party leads in Euro poll as UK results roll in - updates". Evening Standard. 26 May 2019. Retrieved 26 May 2019.
  3. ↑ "The UK's European elections 2019". BBC News. Retrieved 26 May 2019.
  4. ↑ Colombeau, Joseph (October 2018). "London Borough Council Elections: 3 May 2018" (PDF). London Datastore. Greater London Authority. Retrieved 13 October 2023.
  5. ↑ "Home | Irina VON WIESE | MEPs | European Parliament". www.europarl.europa.eu. Retrieved 24 July 2019.
  6. ↑ "Liberal Democrat Parliamentary candidates". Mark Pack. 9 September 2019. Archived from the original on 31 August 2019. Retrieved 10 December 2019.
  7. ↑ MEP, Irina von Wiese (1 March 2019). "Thank you to all Hammersmith LibDem members who entrusted me with their vote. I am honoured to have been selected your parliamentary candidate. The work starts today - let's put Liberal Democrats back on the Hammersmith map!pic.twitter.com/Si4eKMc4b8".
  8. ↑ Pack, Mark (9 June 2019). "Full set of Liberal Democrat candidates for London Assembly unveiled". Mark Pack. Retrieved 30 October 2022.
  9. ↑ Pack, Mark (13 May 2023). "Lib Dem London Assembly list candidates announced". Mark Pack. Retrieved 18 May 2023.
  10. 1 2 "Irina Von Wiese". London Liberal Democrats. Retrieved 26 May 2019.
  11. 1 2 "What Hosting A Refugee Taught My Teenage Daughter". HuffPost UK. 2 April 2019. Retrieved 21 August 2019.
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