Petra Kammerevert

Petra Kammerevert MEP
Member of the European Parliament
Incumbent
Assumed office 14 July 2009
Constituency	Germany
Personal details
Born	(1966-06-01) June 1, 1966 (age 57) Duisburg, Germany
Political party	German: Social Democratic Party  EU: Party of European Socialists
Alma mater	University of Duisburg
Website	www.kammerevert.eu

Petra Kammerevert (born 1 June 1966) is a German politician who has been serving as Member of the European Parliament (MEP) since 2009. She is a member of the Social Democratic Party of Germany, part of the Party of European Socialists.^[1]

Education and professional experience

Following her Abitur in Düsseldorf in 1985, Kammerevert studied sociology and political science at the University of Duisburg-Essen, graduating with a degree in Social Sciences.

Between 1992 and 2002, Kammerevert worked as a scientific adviser to a Member of the European Parliament, spending the first eighteen months in Brussels and the remainder in Düsseldorf. From 2002 to 2009 she worked as a consultant for the ARD public service broadcasting company.^[2]

Political career

Kammerevert joined the Social Democratic Party of Germany in 1984 and initially participated as a board member of the Young Socialists in the SPD's Lower Rhine regional group between 1987 and 1990. In 1992 she assumed the chair of the Young Socialists in the SPD Düsseldorf, an office which she retained until 1995. Since 1997, she has been a member of the executive committee of the SPD Düsseldorf. Between 1999 and 2009, she was a member of the municipal council of Düsseldorf. Since 2004, she has also been a member of the executive committee of the SPD Lower Rhine region. Since 2012, Kammerevert has been a member of the SPD leadership in North Rhine-Westphalia under successive chairs Hannelore Kraft (2012–2017), Michael Groschek (2017–2018), Sebastian Hartmann (2018–2021) and Thomas Kutschaty (2021–2023).

Member of the European Parliament, 2009–present

In the 2009 European Parliament election, Kammerevert was elected as a Member of the European Parliament on the Social Democratic Party of Germany list for North Rhine-Westphalia.^[3] As such, she sits in the Progressive Alliance of Socialists and Democrats parliamentary group.^[4] Her "constituency" comprises Düsseldorf, Krefeld, Mettmann, Mönchengladbach, Neuss, Remscheid, Solingen and Wuppertal.

In the European Parliament, Kammerevert works as a member of the Committee on Culture and Education, which is also responsible for media, information, youth and sports policy. She served as her parliamentary group's coordinator on the committee from 2014 until 2017 and as its chairwoman from 2017 until 2019.^[5] Alongside Sabine Verheyen, Kammerevert was selected in 2016 as co-rapporteurs on the audio-visual media services directive, which seeks to introduce levies and cultural quotas on services like Netflix.^[6] She has also been serving as har parliamentary group’s main negotiator on the European Media Freedom Act.^[7]

In addition to her committee assignments, Kammerevert is a substitute member of the Committee on Transport and Tourism and of the EU-Croatia Joint Parliamentary Committee.^[8] She is also a member of the Transatlantic Legislators' Dialogue (TLD),^[9] and the European Parliament Intergroup on the Digital Agenda.^[10] On the national level, she is a member of the executive committee of the SPD's commission on media.

Other activities

• Westdeutscher Rundfunk (WDR), Member of the Broadcasting Council (since 2009)^[11][12]
• Fortuna Düsseldorf, Member
• Düsseldorfer EG, Member

Personal life

Kammerevert is married and, together with one adult stepson, lives in Düsseldorf.^[13]

References

External links

• Official website
• European Parliament biography

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German members of the European Parliament (2009–2014)

Christian Democratic Union

• Burkhard Balz
• Reimer Böge
• Elmar Brok
• Daniel Caspary
• Christian Ehler
• Karl-Heinz Florenz
• Michael Gahler
• Ingeborg Grässle
• Peter Jahr
• Elisabeth Jeggle
• Christa Klaß
• Dieter-Lebrecht Koch
• Werner Kuhn
• Werner Langen
• Kurt Lechner
• Klaus-Heiner Lehne
• Hans-Peter Liese
• Thomas Mann
• Hans-Peter Mayer
• Doris Pack
• Markus Pieper
• Hans-Gert Pöttering
• Godelieve Quisthoudt-Rowohl
• Herbert Reul
• Horst Schnellhardt
• Birgit Schnieber-Jastram
• Andreas Schwab
• Renate Sommer
• Thomas Ulmer
• Sabine Verheyen
• Axel Voss
• Rainer Wieland
• Hermann Winkler
• Joachim Zeller

Social Democratic Party

• Udo Bullmann
• Ismail Ertug
• Knut Fleckenstein
• Evelyne Gebhardt
• Jens Geier
• Norbert Glante
• Matthias Groote
• Jutta Haug
• Petra Kammerevert
• Constanze Krehl
• Wolfgang Kreissl-Dörfler
• Bernd Lange
• Jo Leinen
• Norbert Neuser
• Bernhard Rapkay
• Ulrike Rodust
• Dagmar Roth-Behrendt
• Martin Schulz
• Peter Simon
• Birgit Sippel
• Jutta Steinruck
• Barbara Weiler
• Kerstin Westphal

Alliance 90/The Greens

• Jan Philipp Albrecht
• Franziska Brantner
• Reinhard Bütikofer
• Michael Cramer
• Sven Giegold
• Gerald Häfner
• Rebecca Harms
• Martin Häusling
• Ska Keller
• Barbara Lochbihler
• Heide Rühle
• Elisabeth Schroedter
• Werner Schulz
• Helga Trüpel

Free Democratic Party

• Alexander Alvaro
• Jorgo Chatzimarkakis
• Jürgen Creutzmann
• Nadja Hirsch
• Wolf Klinz
• Silvana Koch-Mehrin
• Holger Krahmer
• Alexander Graf Lambsdorff
• Gesine Meißner
• Britta Reimers
• Alexandra Thein
• Michael Theurer

The Left

• Lothar Bisky
• Cornelia Ernst
• Thomas Händel
• Jürgen Klute
• Sabine Lösing
• Helmut Scholz
• Sabine Wils
• Gabi Zimmer

Christian Social Union in Bavaria

• Albert Deß
• Markus Ferber
• Monika Hohlmeier
• Martin Kastler
• Angelika Niebler
• Bernd Posselt
• Manfred Weber
• Anja Weisgerber