Sven Giegold
| Sven Giegold | |
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Giegold at a Green party convention in March 2009.
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| Member of the European Parliament | |
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Assumed office 2009 |
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| Personal details | |
| Born |
17 November 1969 Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Spain |
| Nationality | German |
| Political party |
 German:Alliance '90/The Greens  EU:The Greens–European Free Alliance |
| Alma mater | University of Birmingham |
| Profession | Economist |
| Website | www.sven-giegold.de |
Sven Giegold (born 17 November 1969) is a German politician for the Alliance 90/The Greens party and one of the founding members of Attac Germany. He became a member of the Greens only in 2008, and was elected to the European Parliament in the 2009 elections.
Born in Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Spain, Giegold grew up in Hanover, Lower Saxony. He enrolled at the University of Lüneburg in 1991 majoring in political science and economics, and later attended the University of Bremen. He earned his Master's degree from the University of Birmingham in 1996. He returned to the University of Bremen to pursue his Ph.D. under supervision of Jörg Huffschmid, but later abandoned his studies in favor of his political career.
Giegold was one of the 200 founding members of Attac's German branch in 2000 and was one of their most notable activists until 2008.
Giegold was elected to the European Parliament in the 2009 elections. He has since been serving on the Committee on Economic and Monetary Affairs. In this capacity, he was responsible for draft legislation to set up the European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA) in 2010. In 2013, in their capacity as the parliament’s lead negotiators, Giegold and fellow MEP Marianne Thyssen reached an inter-institutional compromise agreement on creating the Single Supervisory Mechanism (SSM) with the member states. Since 2014, he has been the Greens–European Free Alliance group co-ordinator for the committee.
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