Bettina Stark-Watzinger

Bettina Stark-Watzinger (born 12 May 1968) is a German politician of the Free Democratic Party (FDP) who has been serving as a member of the Bundestag from the state of Hesse since 2017.[1]

Bettina Stark-Watzinger
Bettina Stark-Watzinger in 2018
Member of the Bundestag
Assumed office
2017
Personal details
Born (1968-05-12) 12 May 1968
Frankfurt, West Germany
(now Germany)
NationalityGerman
Political partyFDP
Children2
Alma mater

Early life and career

Stark-Watzinger graduated from high school in 1989 and subsequently studied economics at the University of Mainz and the Goethe University Frankfurt from 1989 to 1993. She graduated with a degree in economics.

From 1994 to 1996, Stark-Watzinger completed a trainee programme at BHF Bank in Frankfurt, where she worked as Regional Manager. This was followed by a six-year stay abroad in the United Kingdom from the end of 1996 to 2006, where she initially worked in the financial sector again in London, and a family break. From 2006 to 2008 she worked in the Academic Manager, Finance, Accounting, Controlling and Taxation Department at the European Business School in Oestrich-Winkel. From 2008 until her election to the Bundestag in 2017, Stark-Watzinger worked as managing director in the commercial department of an interdisciplinary research institution, the Leibniz Institute for Financial Research at Goethe University Frankfurt.

Political career

Stark-Watzinger became a member of the Bundestag in the 2017 German federal election.[2] From 2017 until 2020, she chaired the Finance Committee.[3][4]

At the end of January 2020, Stark-Watzinger was elected parliamentary manager of the FDP parliamentary group in the Bundestag.[5][6] In this capacity, she is a member of the parliament’s Council of Elders, which – among other duties – determines daily legislative agenda items and assigns committee chairpersons based on party representation. She also joined the Budget Committee, where she has since been serving as her parliamentary group's rapporteur on the annual budget of the Federal Ministry of Education and Research.

In addition to her committee assignments, Stark-Watzinger has been part of the German Parliamentary Friendship Group for Relations with the States of South Asia since 2018. Since 2019, she has been a member of the German delegation to the Franco-German Parliamentary Assembly.

Other activities

References
  1. "Bettina Stark-Watzinger | Abgeordnetenwatch". www.abgeordnetenwatch.de (in German). Retrieved 2020-03-16.
  2. Hessen, F. D. P. "Bettina Stark-Watzinger". fdp-hessen.de (in German). Retrieved 2020-03-16.
  3. "Deutscher Bundestag - Finanzausschuss". Deutscher Bundestag (in German). Retrieved 2020-03-16.
  4. Angela Wefers (January 29, 2020), Hessel löst Stark-Watzinger an der Spitze des Finanzausschusses ab Börsen-Zeitung.
  5. "Fraktionsvorstand". Fraktion der Freien Demokraten im Deutschen Bundestag (in German). Retrieved 2020-03-16.
  6. "Stark-Watzinger ist Parlamentarische Geschäftsführerin der FDP-Bundestagsfraktion". Politik & Kommunikation (in German). Retrieved 2020-03-16.
  7. Board Friedrich Naumann Foundation.
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