Viola von Cramon-Taubadel

Viola von Cramon
Viola von Cramon-Taubadel at Heinrich Böll Foundation
Member of the Bundestag
In office 2009 – 2013
Personal details
Born	(1970-03-23) March 23, 1970 Halle (Westphalia), West Germany (now Germany)
Citizenship	German
Nationality	Germany
Political party	Alliance '90/The Greens
Alma mater	University of Bonn

Viola von Cramon-Taubadel, often officially referred as simply Viola von Cramon (Halle (Westphalia), 23 March 1970) is an Alliance '90/The Greens politician who represented Lower Saxony in the Bundestag, the German federal parliament from 2009 to 2013.^[1]

Education and early career

Viola von Cramon graduated from Ratsgymnasium Bielefeld in 1989. From 1990 to 1991 she did an internship in field of Agriculture at Demeter Charity Organization in Upper Bavaria. From 1992 to 1993, she was an Erasmus Scholar at Wye College in Kent Country followed by the Language and Study visit to Russia in 1993, traineeship in Voronezh and Belgorod within the World Bank Feasibility study project in 1994 and study visit to Estonia in 1995.

In 1996, von Cramon was employed as an assistant to the Ukrainian Government within the economic-political project of German Government in Kiev. She continued studies and graduated University of Bonn in 1997 with a degree in Agricultural economics. From 1993 to 1996, parallel to her studies and professional activities, she lectured at Agra-Europe and other publishing houses.

From 1997 to 2004 von Cramon was operating independent projects in Central and Eastern Europe. In 2006-2007 she attended lectures at Cornell University in Ithaca, New York.^[2]

Political career

Von Cramon has been a member of the Green Party since 2001.

Within her Parliamentary Fraction, von Cramon was spokeswoman for the European Foreign Affairs and Sports.^[3] Besides that, she was also responsible for relations to China, Central Asia and the Eastern Partnership.

In addition to her committee assignments, von Cramon served as Deputy Chairwoman of the German-Ukrainian Parliamentary Friendship Group and of the Parliamentary Friendship Group for Relations with the States of the Southern Caucasus (Armenia, Azerbaijan, Georgia). She was also a member of the of the Parliamentary Friendship Group for Relations with the States of Central Asia (Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Uzbekistan, Tadjikistan, Turkmenistan).

Other activities

• Heinrich Böll Foundation, Member of the Europe/Transatlantic Advisory Board (since 2009)^[4]
• Freya von Moltke Foundation for the New Kreisau, Member of the Advisory Board^[5]
• Foodwatch, Member

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