Sergey Lagodinsky
MEP
Member of the European Parliament
for Germany
Assumed office
2 July 2019
Personal details
Born (1975-12-01) 1 December 1975
Astrakhan, Russian SFSR, Soviet Union
(now Russia)
NationalityGerman
Political party German
Alliance 90/The Greens
 EU
European Green Party
Alma mater
ProfessionLawyer

Sergey Lagodinsky (Russian: Сергей Лагодинский; born 1 December 1975) is a German lawyer and politician of the Alliance 90/The Greens who has been serving as a Member of the European Parliament since 2019.[1]

Early life and education

Lagodinksy grew up in Astrakhan.[2] In 1993, his family emigrated from Russia and settled in Schleswig-Holstein.[3]

Lagodinsky holds a law degree from the University of Göttingen and a master's degree in public administration from Harvard University's John F. Kennedy School of Government. He received a PhD in law from the Humboldt University of Berlin. His PhD research focused on issues of human rights, anti-discrimination and freedom of speech. He completed the second state examination in law (bar exam) in Berlin. For his studies, he received scholarships from the German National Academic Foundation and the Heinrich Böll Foundation.

Early career

From 2003 to 2008, Lagodinsky served as program director, and later as an advisor to the managing director, at the Berlin office of the American Jewish Committee (AJC). In 2008 and 2009 he was a Fellow at the Stiftung Neue Verantwortung in Berlin and in 2010 he was a Yale World Fellow in New Haven.[4]

From 2011 until 2012, Lagodinsky was an attorney with the Berlin office of international law firm Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe. He subsequently headed the EU/North America department of the Heinrich Böll Foundation in Berlin. In addition, he was a non-resident fellow with the Global Public Policy Institute (GPPi) in Berlin.[5]

Political career

Early beginnings

From 2001, Lagodinsky was a member of the Social Democratic Party (SPD). During that time, he was (alongside Peter Feldmann) a co-founder and speaker of the party's Jewish Caucus (AJS), a position he held from 2007 until 2011. Amid the controversy over Thilo Sarrazin, he left the party and instead joined Alliance 90/The Greens in 2011.

Member of the European Parliament, 2019–present

Lagodinsky has been a Member of the European Parliament since the 2019 European elections. He has since been serving on the Committee on Legal Affairs. In this capacity, he is also a member of the Democracy, Rule of Law & Fundamental Rights Monitoring Group.[6]

In addition to his committee assignments, Lagodinsky is part of the Parliament's delegations to the EU-Turkey Joint Parliamentary Committee and to the Euronest Parliamentary Assembly.[7] He is also a member of the European Parliament Intergroup on Anti-Racism and Diversity.[8]

In the negotiations to form a so-called traffic light coalition of the Social Democratic Party (SPD), the Green Party and the Free Democratic Party (FDP) following the 2021 German elections, Lagodinsky was part of his party's delegation in the working group on homeland security, civil rights and consumer protection, co-chaired by Christine Lambrecht, Konstantin von Notz and Wolfgang Kubicki.[9]

Other activities

References

  1. ↑ "Alle Gewählte in alphabetischer Reihenfolge". Der Bundeswahlleiter (in German). Retrieved 2 December 2019.
  2. ↑ Carsten Dippel (31 May 2019), Grünen-Politiker Sergey Lagodinsky: Als säkularer Jude ins Europaparlament Deutschlandfunk.
  3. ↑ Marina Mai (6 November 2018), Sergey Lagodinsky: Jetzt auch noch Mutter Die Tageszeitung.
  4. ↑ Sergey Lagodinsky Global Public Policy Institute (GPPi).
  5. ↑ Sergey Lagodinsky Global Public Policy Institute (GPPi).
  6. ↑ Democracy, Rule of Law & Fundamental Rights Monitoring Group, 2019–2024 European Parliament.
  7. ↑ Sergey Lagodinsky European Parliament.
  8. ↑ Intergroup on Anti-Racism and Diversity European Parliament.
  9. ↑ Britt-Marie Lakämper (October 21, 2021), SPD, Grüne, FDP: Diese Politiker verhandeln die Ampel-Koalition Westdeutsche Allgemeine Zeitung.
  10. ↑ Members European Council on Foreign Relations.
  11. ↑ Leadership Amadeu Antonio Foundation.
  12. ↑ Advisory Board Ernst Ludwig Ehrlich Scholarship Fund.
  13. ↑ Advisory Board Humanity in Action Germany.
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