Speakers
Jens Geier
Member of the European Parliament, Vice Chairman of the Budget Committee of the European Parliament
Jens Geier is member of the European Parliament since 2009. He is member of the Industry, Research and Energy Committee (ITRE) and member of the Budget Committee (BUDG).
Before that, he gathered experience in real estate projects for the public sector with innova AG and Deloitte. Further, he was a project manager and spokesperson at Projekt Ruhr GmbH and worked for the bureau of the SPD and the bureau of the regional SPD-branch for North Rhine-Westphalia. After finishing his studies in history, literature and political science at the Ruhr-University Bochum, he acted as a policy advisor for budgetary affairs and research and technology policy for an SPD-Member of the European Parliament. Until 2024, he was the head of the SPD delegation in the European Parliament.
Jens Geier is an active member of trade union IG Metall, the Workers' Welfare Association (AWO) and the Association for work with children and teenagers in socially deprived areas (VKJ).
He was born in Frankfurt (Main) and grew up in Essen.
