Curriculum Vitae
Silvana Koch-Mehrin is the founder of Women Political Leaders Global Forum (WPL), an international not-for-profit network of female politicians that was created with the mission to reach visibility and advocate for the increase of number and participation of women in politics in order to advance society.
Besides her work for the WLP, she has worked as Member of the European Parliament from 2004-2014, during which she was appointed First Vice-President of the Alliance of Liberals and Democrats for Europe (2004-2009) and Vice-President (Deputy Speaker) of the European Parliament (2009-2011). She served in the committees on budget, trade and gender equality. Prior to her political work, she was active as a talk-show host with her own show on two regional German TV channels, and still contributes to national and international media. Silvana Koch-Mehrin works as Senior Advisor to EY Ernst & Young, as Senior Policy Advisor to gplus europe, and advises on EU regulatory issues. Silvana holds a honorary position as Representative of the EU to W20.