Irina von Wiese

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]

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

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. "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. "Irina Von Wiese". London Liberal Democrats. Retrieved 26 May 2019.
  11. "What Hosting A Refugee Taught My Teenage Daughter". HuffPost UK. 2 April 2019. Retrieved 21 August 2019.
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