Kerstin Müller - Our Visitors

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June 13, 2011

Kerstin Müller, Member of the German Parliament for the Greens, will visit New York City and Washington, DC from June 14th to June 18th, 2011 in her position as member of the parliamentarian committee on crisis prevention.

Biography

Born and raised in the Rhineland (Cologne), Kerstin Müller is holding a parliamentary position in the German Bundestag since 1994. Kerstin Müller started to enjoy political discussions early in life and is currently active in the realms of citizens’ and human rights, refugee and migration policy. She strives for a more modern and more cosmopolitan Germany but also deems foreign and security policies of African states important since a transdisciplinary approach between African development- economic and security policy is needed.
During the 13th and 14th legislative period, Kerstin Müller held the position of the parliamentary party leader before she became minister of state in the Foreign Office in 2002.

-   Since 1986 Member of the German Green Party
-   1987-1989 Spokeswoman of the Greens in the Cologne district association
-   1990-1994 chairwoman of  Bündnis 90/Die Grünen North Rhine-Westphalia
-   Since 1994 member of the German Bundestag
-   1994-2002 Parliamentary party leader of the Greens
-   1994-2002 member of the Bundestag and Bundesrat conciliation committee
-   2002-2005 minister of state in the German Foreign Office
-   2005-2009 Spokeswoman for foreign policy and member of the foreign affairs committee