Franziska Katharina Brantner, Germany, is a member of Bündnis 90/Die Grünen (Alliance 90/The Greens), part of the Greens - European Free Alliance (Greens/EFA) in the European Parliament.
She became a member of the European Parliament in 2009 and currently sits as a full member on the Committee on Foreign Affairs. She is also part of the Delegation for Relations with Israel. As a substitute, Brantner sits on the Committee on Budgets, the Committee on Women’s Rights and Gender Equality and the Subcommittee on Security and Defence, and is part of the Delegation for Relations with Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Serbia, Montenegro and Kosovo and the Delegation to the Euro-Mediterranean Parliamentary Assembly.
She currently holds a teaching position in Political Science at the University of Mannheim, where she is studying for a PhD on the United Nation’s capacity for reforms.
Before joining Parliament, Brantner worked for the Bertelsmann Foundation consulting on EU foreign policy issues, in 2009. She was a member of the Peace and Security Commission of the German Greens, and part of a team of authors who wrote the 2009 election manifesto for the Greens. As a consultant for the United Nations Development Fund for Women (UNIFEM), she helped to design a European action plan for UN Security Resolution 1325 in 2008. This was the first resolution ever passed by the Security Council specifically addressing the impact of war on women and women’s contributions to conflict resolution and sustainable peace. Brantner co-authored a study for the European Council for Foreign Relations on EU Human Rights Policies at the UN from 2007 to 2008. Between 2006 and 2007, Brantner was a research fellow at the European Studies Centre at St Antony’s College in Oxford. She graduated in 2004 with a double diploma in Political Science from the School of International & Public Affairs at Columbia University in New York, and Sciences Po in Paris.
Brantner was born in 1979, in Lörrach, Germany.
