Franziska Brantner

Franziska Brantner (Greens, Germany) 

Born in 1979, Franziska Brantner was elected to the European Parliament in 2009. Now she serves as her group’s coordinator on the Committee on Foreign Affairs, as a member on the Subcommittee on Security and Defence and the Committee on Women’s Rights and Gender Equality as well as a substitute on the Committee on Budgets. She graduated in 2004 with a double diploma from the School of International & Public Affairs at Columbia University in New York and Sciences Po in Paris, where she graduated top of her class.

Before joining the European Parliament she worked for the Bertelsmann Foundation consulting on EU foreign policy issues. As a consultant for the United Nations Development Fund for Women (UNIFEM), she helped design a European action plan for the UN Security Resolution 1325, the first resolution ever passed by the Security Council that specifically addresses the impact of war on women, and women’s contributions to conflict resolution and sustainable peace. In 2007-08, Franziska co-authored with Richard Gowan a study for the European Council for Foreign Relations on EU Human Rights Policies at the United Nations and she was a member of the Peace- and Security Commission of the German Greens. She holds a teaching position in Political Science at the University of Mannheim, where she also took her PhD on the Reformability of the United Nations. Franziska Brantner lived and worked in Tel Aviv, Washington, D. C., Paris, New York and Berlin.

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