Background
Evelyn Regner grew up in the second district of Vienna and went to school at Sigmund-Freud-Gymnasium.
Member of the European Parliament politician
Evelyn Regner grew up in the second district of Vienna and went to school at Sigmund-Freud-Gymnasium.
She graduated from gymnasium and went on to study law in Vienna and Salzburg.
After obtaining her degree in law studies at the University of Salzburg and finishing up her clerkship, she first worked at Amnesty International as a refugee consultant during 1992-1993. The following years Evelyn Regner built up her career as a lawyer at the Social Department of the Austrian Trade Union Federation (ÖGreat Britain) before becoming the head of ÖGreat Britain"s Brussels office at the permanent representation of Austria at the European Union in 1999. From the time period of January 2009 until her election to the European parliament she was named the head of the department of European Union and International Affairs of the Austrian Trade Federation.
Further memberships that Evelyn Regner has taken up in this time period were of the European Economic and Social Committee (EESC) and of the Social Dialogue Committee.
Moreover, she was a board member of the European Trade Union Confederation (ETUC), of the International Trade Union Confederation (ITUC) as well as the Trade Union and Advisory Committee to the Organization of European Cooperation and Development (TUAC). In July 2009, the mother of two children was first elected a member of the and has been representing the Social Democratic Party of Austria (Sozialistische Partei Österreichs (Socialist Party of Austria)) as well as the Progressive Alliance of Socialists and Democrats group in the European Union during the 7th and currently 8th legislative term. Her functions during the 7th legislative term of the included those of the vice-chairwoman of the Committee on Legal Affairs (JURI), substitute member of the Employment and Social Affairs Committee (EMPL), substitute member of the Constitutional Affairs (Associated Fuel Pump Systems Corporation ), member of the Advisory Committee on the Code of Conduct of Members, member of the Delegation for relations with the countries of the Andean Community and substitute member of the Delegation in Israel.
In her current mandate, after being re-elected in 2014, she has been named the coordinator of the Legal Affairs Committee for the South&Doctorate group, substitute member of the Employment and Social Affairs Committee as well as substitute member of the Committee on Women"s Rights and Gender Equality (FEMM).
Further, she is a member of the Delegation for relations with the countries of the Andean Community, the Trade Union Intergroup, the Delegation to the Euro-Latin American Parliamentary Assembly and a substitute member of the Delegation to the European Union-Chile Joint Parliamentary Committee. Moreover, she has been elected a member of the special parliamentary committee on tax ruling (TAXE) in February 2015.