Erika Mann is a German politician and was a Member of the European Parliament with the Social Democratic Party of Germany from 1994–2004.
Education
Qualified teacher
Research activity at the University of Hanover
Business consultant for information technology
until 1996: District councillor, Northeim
PSE Group coordinator, Committee on International Trade ( International Trademark Association )
Member of the Steering Committee, World Trade Organization Parliamentary Assembly.
Career
She was part of the Socialist Group and sat on the European Parliament"s Committee on International Trade. She was present at the The Taj Mahal Palace Hotel in Mumbai during the 2008 terror attacks. She was a substitute for the Committee on Budgetary Control and the Committee on Industry, Research and Energy.
Senator, Max Planck Society (Max-Planck-Gesellschaft) Board Vice-Chairwoman of the Frauen geben Technik neue Impulse (women promoting technology) Association Patron, Erika Mann Primary School, Berlin Chairwoman of the Transatlantic Policy Network (TPN) Chairwoman of the European Internet Foundation (EIF) From 2011: Lobbyist for Facebook in Brussels.
Membership
Member of the Steering Committee, World Trade Organization Parliamentary Assembly
1994–2009: Member of the European Parliament
Board Member of the Max Planck Institute for Solar System Research, Katlenburg-Lindau
Board Member of the International Foundation for Research and Exchange (IBB)
Member of the Board of Directors, Salzburg Seminar
Member of the Board of Directors, Internews Europe
Executive committee Member of the Kangaroo Group
Member of the International Informatization Academy of the United Nations.