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'Fireside Chat' with Cem Oezdemir

A CEDAR event

7 June 2010
Berlin

As part of a series of professional development 'fireside chats', CEDAR is providing its members with opportunities to meet senior figures from across Europe for dedicated evenings of exchange. As such, CEDAR hosted a fireside chat with Cem Oezdemir on 7 June.

Cem Özdemir is the Co-Chairman of the German Green Party (Alliance '90/The Greens). As party leader, he focuses on ecological and economic issues, including the development of a "Green New Deal", as well as educational reforms and migration and integration issues.  In 1994 Cem was elected to the Bundestag , becoming the first German-born second-generation immigrant to become a member of parliament. In 2003, Cem Özdemir joined other senior policy-practitioners and academics as a "Transatlantic Fellow" at the German Marshall Fund in Washington, DC and Brussels. From 2004 until 2009 he was a Member of the European Parliament (The Greens / European Free Alliance), where he was Speaker on Foreign Affairs for his political group.