Jakob von Weizsäcker
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Jakob von Weizsäcker MEP |
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| Member of the European Parliament | |
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Assumed office 1 July 2014 |
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| Constituency | Germany |
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4 March 1970 Heidelberg, Germany |
| Political party |
 GermanSocial Democratic Party  EUParty of European Socialists |
| Children | 4 |
| Alma mater | University of Bonn |
| Website | jakob |
Jakob von Weizsäcker (born 4 March 1970) is a German politician and Member of the European Parliament (MEP) from Germany. He is a member of the Social Democratic Party, part of the Party of European Socialists.
After attending Atlantic College in Wales, he studied at Bonn University and worked for Aktion Sühnezeichen Friedensdienste in Poland instead of military service. He completed his university studies in France at ENS Lyon and what is today known as the Paris School of Economics, graduating with a Maîtrise in physics and a Diplôme d'études approfondies in economics.
Weizsäcker started work as a research fellow with Jean-Charles Hourcade at CIRED in Paris and then with Hans-Werner Sinn at the Center for Economic Studies in Munich. After stints at a venture capital firm and as a visiting scholar at the MIT Department of economics, he joined the Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs (Berlin) in 2001 as Private secretary to Siegmar Mosdorf. In 2002, he was recruited by the World Bank in Washington DC as economist. 2005-2010 he was a resident fellow of the think-tank Bruegel in Brussels. With his work on migration policy, he coined the term Blue Card for a European scheme to attract high-skilled immigrants. From 2010 to 2014, he headed a department at the Ministry of Economic Affairs in Thuringia.
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