Irina von Wiese | |
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| Member of the European Parliament for London | |
| In office 2 July 2019 – 31 January 2020 | |
| Preceded by | Dr Charles Tannock |
| Succeeded by | Constituency abolished |
| Personal details | |
| Born | 11 September 1967 Cologne, West Germany (now Germany) |
| Nationality | British, German |
| Political party | Liberal Democrats |
| Children | 1 |
| Alma mater | Harvard University |
Irina Stephanie von Wiese und Kaiserswaldau[1] (born 11 September 1967) is a British politician, who was a Liberal Democrat Member of the European Parliament (MEP) for London between 2019 and the United Kingdom's withdrawal from the EU.[2][3]
In a council by-election in 2017, she stood unsuccessfully for election in the ward of Avonmore and Brook Green in Hammersmith and Fulham, coming third.[1] She unsuccessfully stood in the Ravenscourt Park ward at the 2018 Hammersmith and Fulham borough election.[4]
She was elected a Member of the European Parliament for the London region in the 2019 European Parliament election, on the Liberal Democrat party list, assuming office on 2 July 2019. She sat within the Renew Europe group of liberal political parties and served as Vice-Chair on the European Parliament's Subcommittee on Human Rights (DROI).[5]
Until at least August 2019, she was formerly the Liberal Democrat prospective parliamentary candidate for Hammersmith in the 2019 United Kingdom general election.[6][7] She was an unsuccessful candidate for the 2021 London Assembly election.[8] She was elected to serve as a councillor for the Borough & Bankside ward of Southwark London Borough Council in May 2022. She is standing again in the 2024 London Assembly election.[9]
Wiese holds both German and British citizenship.[10] She earned a Master of Public Administration (MPA) degree from Harvard University.[10] She has one teenage daughter[11] and has housed refugees in her London home since 2016, working with the charity Refugees at Home.[11]
