Ulrike Lunacek
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Ulrike Lunacek MEP |
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| Member of the European Parliament | |
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Assumed office 1 July 2009 |
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| Constituency | Austria |
| Member of the Austrian Parliament | |
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In office 3 October 1999 – 1 July 2009 |
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| Constituency | Vienna |
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26 May 1957 Krems an der Donau, Austria |
| Political party |
 AustrianAustrian Green Party  EUEuropean Green Party |
| Alma mater | University of Innsbruck |
| Website | www |
Ulrike Lunacek (born 26 May 1957) is an Austrian politician and Member of the European Parliament (MEP) from Austria. She is a member of the Austrian Green Party, part of the European Green Party.
She is Vice President of the European Parliament, Member of the Greens/EFA group in the European Parliament since 2009 and head of delegation of the Austrian Greens in the European Parliament. Lunacek is Kosovo-Rapporteur and co-president of the Intergroup on LGBTI Rights and Member of the Committee on Foreign Affairs and Substitute in the Committee on Civil Liberties, Justice and Home Affair.
From 1967 to 1975 Lunacek attended high school in the second district of Vienna. Furthermore, she spent 1 year (1973-1974) as an AFS-student at a high school in Boone (Iowa, USA). In 1975 she started studying interpreting (English and Spanish) at the University of Innsbruck and graduated in 1983. During this time she was involved in the establishment of the women's refuge Innsbruck and did social work. From 1984 to 1986 she was an adviser for the organization "Frauensolidarität" (Solidarity among Women) in Vienna. Afterwards Lunacek was editor of the magazine "Südwind" and press officer of the Austrian Information Service for Development Politics (ÖIE). In addition she worked as a freelance translator and journalist.
In 1994 Lunacek was NGO delegate at the UN International Conference on Population and Development in Cairo and a year later she coordinated the press work of all NGOs at the Fourth World Conference on Women in Beijing.
Lunacek's political career began in 1995 with the presentation of the "Appeal to reason", organized by the Austrian Lesbian and Gay Forum in Palais Auersperg, and the first-time candidacy for the Austrian Green Party, whose federal business manager she was from 1996 to 1998.
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