CEDAR | European Muslim Professionals Network

As part of a series of professional development 'fireside chats', CEDAR is providing its members with opportunities to meet senior figures from across Europe for dedicated evenings of exchange. The last CEDAR fireside chat took place with Cem Özdemir on the 7 June in Berlin. Cem Özdemir is the Co-Chairman of the German Green Party (Alliance '90/The Greens). As party leader, he focuses on ecological and economic issues, including the development of a "Green New Deal", as well as educational reforms and migration and integration issues.

In 1994 Cem was elected to the Bundestag, becoming the first German-born second-generation immigrant to become a member of parliament. In 2003, Cem Özdemir joined other senior policy-practitioners and academics as a "Transatlantic Fellow" at the German Marshall Fund in Washington, DC and Brussels. From 2004 until 2009 he was a Member of the European Parliament (The Greens / European Free Alliance), where he was Speaker on Foreign Affairs for his political group.