Anna Lührmann

Anna Lührmann

Anna Lührmann (born June 14, 1983 in Lich, Hesse) became the youngest-ever member of the German Parliament in 2002,[1] as well as the youngest member of parliament in the world. She became involved in the Green Party at thirteen and her election came after a fast career in the youth organisation Grün-Alternatives Jugendbündnis. She belongs to the moderate wing of the Green Party. From 2009 - 2011 she advised UNDP in Sudan on Electoral and Parliamentary issues. She is lead author of UNDP's handbook "Enhancing Youth Political Participation Throughout the Electoral Cycle A Good Practice Guide", published in 2013.[2] In August 2015, she joined the Varieties of Democracy Institute at the Department of Political Science, University of Gothenburg, Sweden, as Postdoctoral Research Fellow .[3]

References

  1. ↑ http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/germany/1409313/Germanys-youngest-MP-to-take-seat-for-Greens-at-19.html
  2. ↑ http://www.youthpolicy.org/library/documents/enhancing-youth-political-participation-throughout-the-electoral-cycle-a-good-practice-guide/
  3. ↑ https://v-dem.net/en/v-dem-institute/researchers/

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