Mag. Monika GRIEFAHN Umweltministerin a.D. von Niedersachsen, Buchholz
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1973-1979 | Sociology and Mathematics (Diploma in Sociology), Universities of Göttingen and Hamburg |
1973-1990 | Adult education for trade unions, church organizations, NGOs, German-French Youth Organisation |
1980-1982 | Executive Director, YMCA Hamburg, Germany |
1980-1983 | Co-founder and Executive Director, Greenpeace Germany |
1984-1990 | Member of the International Board of Directors, Greenpeace International |
1990-1998 | Minister of Environmental Affairs in the State of Lower Saxony, Germany |
1998-2009 | Member of the German Parliament |
- Member, OSCE-delegation (1998-2005) | |
- Vice Chair, German delegation to the Interparliamentary Union | |
- Head, Commission for Culture and the Media (2000-2005) | |
- Spokesperson, Sub-Committee United Nations (1998-2000) | |
- Spokesperson, parliamentary group of the SPD for the Sub-Committee on Cultural Policy Abroad (2005-2009) | |
- Spokesperson, parliamentary group of the SPD for the Committee on Cultural and the Media (1998-2000, 2005-2009) | |
- Member, Sub-Committees on Cultural Policy Abroad and New Media | |
- Member, Committees on Foreign Affairs and Culture and the Media | |
Since 2009 Freelancer for culture, the media and the environment |
Mitgliedschaften
Member, Amnesty International | |
Member, Greenpeace | |
Member, Nuclear-free Future Award | |
Various other national institutions or organisations in the fields of environment, culture and the media |
Publikationen
Greenpeace. Wir kämpfen für eine Welt, in der wir leben können, Deutscher Bücherbund, Stuttgart, 1985 | |
Weil ich ein Lied hab. Die Politik einer Umweltministerin, Piper, Munich, 1994 | |
The Cultural Dimension of Environmentalism, Speech at Harvard University, Mass., USA, 10/2007 | |
Pushing Back the Frontiers of Poverty, Speech on the occasion of the General Debate of the Inter-Parliamentary Union, 2008 |
Auszeichnungen
Knight of the french Legion of Honors, 2002 |