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Lidia Geringer de Oedenberg

S&D, Poland

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Member
- Parliament’s Bureau
- Quaestors
- Committee on Legal Affairs
- Committee on Petitions
- Delegation for relations with the countries of South Asia
Substitute
- Committee on Budgets
- Delegation to the EU-Croatia Joint Parliamentary Committee
- Delegation to the ACP-EU Joint Parliamentary Assembly
- Delegation to the Parliamentary Assembly for the Union of the Mediterranean
Curriculum Vitae
- Wrocław University of Economics, Faculty of Management and Information Technology, Economic Cybernetics and Statistics studies (1981); cultural marketing studies at the Collegium of World Economy, Warsaw School of Economics (SGGW) (1997); further studies (Santander, 1998; Amsterdam, 1998, 2000); French Institute of Administration, Warsaw (1999). Diplôme approfondi de langue française (2001).
- TVP S.A. (Polish Television), editor (1989-2001); programme director at TVP Wrocław (2001); Vice-Chairwoman of the Programme Board at TVP Wrocław (2004-2006). Journalist on the weekly magazine Wiadomości Kulturalne (1995-1997). General director of the 'Wratislavia Cantans' International Festival (1996-2005). Member of the Board of the European Festivals Association (EFA) in Geneva (1997-2000). Chairwoman of the EFA Marketing Committee (2000-2003). Commissioner for Music for the Europalia Poland festival (2000-2002). General Director of the Wrocław Philharmonic (2001-2005).
- Member of the Democratic Left Alliance (SLD) party (since 2006); Member of the National Council of the SLD (since 2008).
- Member of the European Parliament (2004-2009); Vice-Chairwoman of the Committee on Legal Affairs (2006-2009); member of the Committees on Rural Development, Budgets, Women's Rights and Gender Equality, and Petitions (2004-2009).
- Primus Inter Pares award, Warsaw (1978-1979). Special economics award from the Scientific Secretary of the Polish Academy of Sciences (Warsaw, 1980). Prize and medal awarded by the Provincial Governor in Wrocław (1996, 1997). Wrocław Music Prize 2000/2001 and 2002/2003 ('Wratislavia Cantans'). 2002 Lower Silesia Diamond Prize (for Wrocław Philharmonic). Ministry of Culture awards: Meritorious Cultural Worker Decoration in 2004 and Gloria Artis medal in 2005. Polish Association for the Blind Gold Badge of Honour 2008. Polish Pensioners' Association Gold Badge of Honour 2008. LWP Cross awarded by the Association of Soldiers of the People's Army of Poland (LWP) in 2008. Nominated for the Polityka Passport award for culture in 1998. Shortlisted for the MEP Awards 2008 in the Campaigner of the Year category. Best Polish MEP during the sixth parliamentary term, according to the 2009 rankings compiled by the Kościuszko Institute and the Institute for Public Affairs and the Institute of Political Science at Wrocław University.

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