Background
Piri was born in on 8 April 1979 in Celldömölk, Hungary.
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Katalin Piri
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Education
Piri studied the first years of pedagogy at the University of Groningen between 1998 and 2000 and then switched to international relations, graduating in 2007.
Career
She went to the Christian Gymnasium in Utrecht between 1991 and 1997. Piri worked as a political advisor to the Labour Party delegation in the between 2006 and 2008. She worked as an advisor to the delegation working on relations with Armenia, Azerbaijan and Georgia.
In 2011 Piri worked some months at the Wiardi Beckman Stichting, a think thank linked to the Labour Party.
Piri occupied the third place on the Labour Party list for the elections of 2014, after Paul Tang and Agnes Jongerius. She cited upholding democratic standards and the respect for human rights as internal motivations to take up the candidacy.
She was elected to the in May 2014.
Politics
In that latter year she became political advisor for foreign policy to the group the Labour Party is in, the Progressive Alliance of Socialists and Democrats. Later that year she became programme manager for the Southern-Caucasus and Moldova at the Netherlands Institute for Multiparty Democracy.
Membership
In the she is member of the Committee on Foreign Affairs and member of the Delegation to the European Union-Ukraine Parliamentary Cooperation Committee and Delegation to the Euronest Parliamentary Assembly.
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Political Party
Labour Party