Angelika Niebler

Angelika Niebler
Member of the European Parliament
Assumed office
1999
Personal details
Born (1963-02-18) 18 February 1963
Munich, Bavaria
Nationality German
Political party  German:
Christian Social Union
 EU:
European People's Party
Spouse(s) Michael Niebler (m. 1995)
Alma mater Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich,
University of Geneva,
University of Edinburgh
Occupation Lawyer
Website www.angelika-niebler.de
Video Statement (English) / (German)

Angelika Niebler (née Rupertseder; born 18 February 1963) is a German politician and Member of the European Parliament (MEP) for Bavaria with the Christian Social Union in Bavaria and the Member of the Bureau of the European People's Party.

Education

Career

Professional career

Niebler practiced with Lovells from 1991 to 1997 and – as Salary Partner – with Beiten Burkhardt from 1997 to 2004.[1] From 2004 to 2015, she worked at Bird & Bird’s Munich office.[2][3] In September 2015, she joined Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher’s Munich office as of counsel, where she supports the firm’s Media, Entertainment & Technology Group as well as the Privacy, Cybersecurity and Consumer Protection Group.[4]

In addition to practicing law, Niebler has been a visiting lecturer on Intellectual / Industrial Property Rights (IPR) at the Munich University of Applied Sciences (HM) since August 2016.

Early political career

Member of the European Parliament, 1999–present

Since 1999, Niebler has been a Member of the European Parliament, where she has since served as the CDU/CSU Group parliamentary business manager in the EPP-ED Group at the European Parliament, and as member of the CDU/CSU Group and EPP-ED Group Executive.

Niebler sits on the European Parliament's Committee on Industry, Research and Energy, and its Committee on Women's Rights and Gender Equality. She is a substitute for the Committee on the Internal Market and Consumer Protection and a member of the Delegation for relations with the Gulf States, including Yemen. In addition, she serves as a member of the European Parliament Intergroup on the Digital Agenda;[5] the European Parliament's Sky and Space Intergroup (SSI);[6] and the European Parliament Intergroup on Biodiversity, Countryside, Hunting and Recreational Fisheries.[7]

Between 2007 and 2009, Niebler served as chairwoman of the Committee on Industry, Research and Energy; she was later replaced by Herbert Reul.[8] In 2006, she was the author of the industry committee’s report on the seventh Framework Program for Research and Technological Development, totalling €50.5 billion.[9] From 2010 to 2012, she led the European Parliament’s negotiations on overhauling European Union roaming regulations.[10]

In early 2014, the CSU chose Niebler to be the party list’s number 2 for the 2014 European elections, following Markus Ferber.[11] She later replaced Ferber as leader of the CSU MEPs after the party’s poor showing in the elections.[12]

Role in national politics

Ahead of the 2002 German federal election, Edmund Stoiber included Niebler in his shadow cabinet for the Christian Democrats’ campaign to unseat incumbent Gerhard Schröder as chancellor.[13]

Niebler later was a CSU delegate to the Federal Convention for the purpose of electing the President of Germany in 2004, 2009, 2010 and 2012. In 2015, Bavaria's Minister President Horst Seehofer nominated her as one of his deputies in the office of CSU chairman, making her part of the party’s leadership.

Other activities

Corporate boards

Non-profit organizations

Recognition

References

  1. ↑ Angelika Niebler wechselt zu Bird & Bird Bird & Bird, press release of September 1, 2004.
  2. ↑ Angelika Niebler wechselt zu Bird & Bird Bird & Bird, press release of September 1, 2004.
  3. ↑ Mary Jacoby and Glenn R. Simpson (July 5, 2005), Politics, Business Mix Freely In Europe Parliament Wall Street Journal.
  4. ↑ European Parliament Member Angelika Niebler Joins Gibson Dunn in Munich Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher, press release of September 7, 2015.
  5. ↑ Members of the European Parliament on the Digital Agenda. European Parliament.
  6. ↑ Members of the European Parliament's Sky and Space Intergroup (SSI) European Parliament.
  7. ↑ Member of the European Parliament Intergroup on Biodiversity, Countryside, Hunting and Recreational Fisheries European Parliament.
  8. ↑ Simon Taylor (July 22, 2009), New-look Parliament carves up the top jobs European Voice.
  9. ↑ Jennifer Rankin (June 13, 2007), Mother of Parliament European Voice.
  10. ↑ Ian Wishart (March 28, 2012), EU reaches deal to ‘end mobile phone roaming rip-offs’ European Voice.
  11. ↑ Dave Keating (January 27, 2014), German parties select European Parliament candidates European Voice.
  12. ↑ Toby Vogel (November 20, 2014), Manfred Weber – calm conciliator European Voice.
  13. ↑ Alexander Neubacher and Christoph Schult (February 18, 2002), Mann ohne Eigenschaften Der Spiegel.
  14. ↑ SWP Council Archived January 6, 2016, at the Wayback Machine. German Institute for International and Security Affairs (SWP).
  15. ↑ Angelika Niebler wechselt zu Bird & Bird Bird & Bird, press release of September 1, 2004.
  16. ↑ Lawyers: Angelika Niebler, Of Counsel Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher.
  17. ↑ Lawyers: Angelika Niebler, Of Counsel Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher.
  18. ↑ Lawyers: Angelika Niebler, Of Counsel Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher.

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