Richter, Margarethe

At UNU-CRIS 
19/12/2018
Biographical Statement 

Margarethe Richter, an economic geographer by education, is currently head of office and political adviser to a Member of the European Parliament for the Committee on Foreign Affairs and the interparliamentary delegations with the Mashreq countries, Iraq and the Arab Peninsula. All in all, she can look back on almost 18 years of professional experience in Brussels, both within and outside the EU institutions. Besides her work in the European Parliament, she has held seminars at private universities on lobbying and the legislative process at European level and published several articles around these issues. She is also co-author of the first German-language handbook on the European Parliament and co-editor of an edited volume (also in German) on lobbying in the EU.