Robert Luschnick

Category: Parallel session

Biography

Mag. Robert Luschnik Born 10/1/1967 in Graz

1992-1996 Studies of Law at Karl-Franzens-Universität Graz (thesis on environmental information law); Graduation as Master of Law at the Unversity of Vienna
1994-2001 Director of the Green Group in the Vienna City Hall
2001-2003 Director of the Green Group in the Austrian parliament (2003 in negotiating team of the Greens for government-level negotiations with ÖVP)
2003-2005 Director of the Green Group in the federal state parliament of „Niederösterreich“
2005-2016 Secretary General of the Green Group in the Austrian parliament: responsible for parliamentary management (national and federal council), law and infrastructure; manager of finances of the Green Group, member of the federal election board
2013 Member of negotiating teams of the Greens for regional government negotiations in Kärnten, Salzburg, Tirol
2014 Member of negotiating team of the Greens for regional government negotiations in Vorarlberg
2015 Member of negotiating team of the Greens for regional government negotiations in Vienna
2016 Member of the Board of the association „Gemeinsam für Van der Bellen“ („Together for Van der Bellen“), responsible for legal concerns of the presidential election campaign
2016; Authorized representative for the nomination of A. Van der Bellen 2017 Secretary General of the Austrian Green Party

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Bénédicte Linard

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Sybren Kooistra

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Ulrike Lunacek

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Monika Baunach

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Dirk van den Bosch

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Boussim Fatoumata

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Antolin Polanco

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Ska Keller

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- Vice-president of the Greens/EFA Group in the European Parliament, 2014-2016
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