Katarina Barley

Katarina Barley is a PES Executive Vice-President, ex-officio member of PES Women Executive, and Vice-President of the European Parliament. In the European Parliament she is a member of the Committee on Internal Market and Consumer Protection and a substitute member of the Committee on Civil Liberties, Justice and Home Affairs. In addition, she serves as the SPD´s Envoy for Europe. In the 2019 and 2024 European elections, she ran as the lead candidate for her party, the SPD. Previously, she was a member of the German Bundestag from 2013 to 2019. During this time, she served as Secretary General of the SPD, Federal Minister for Family Affairs, Senior Citizens, Women and Youth, Acting Federal Minister of Labour and Social Affairs, as well as Federal Minister of Justice and for Consumer Protection. Before her time in politics, she worked as a lawyer and judge. Social justice, democracy, and the rule of law as well as a social Europe are core themes of Katarina Barley’s politics. Since 2022, she serves as the President of the Workers’ Samaritan Federation Germany (ASB).

PES Executive Vice-President, European Parliament Vice-President; MEP