Alexander Radwan

Alexander Radwan
MdB
Radwan in 2014
Member of the Bundestag
Incumbent
Assumed office
22 October 2013
Preceded byIlse Aigner
ConstituencyStarnberg (2013–2017)
Bad Tölz-Wolfratshausen – Miesbach (2017–present)
In office
2013–2018
Preceded byMartin Fink
Succeeded byIlse Aigner
In office
20 July 1999 – 2 December 2008
Preceded byMulti-member district
Succeeded byMartin Kastler
Personal details
Born (1964-08-30) 30 August 1964 (age 62)
Munich, West Germany
PartyChristian Social Union
European People's Party
ProfessionLawyer

Alexander Gamal Radwan (born 30 August 1964) is a German politician.

Early life and education

Radwan studied automotive engineering, specializing in aircraft, at the Munich University of Applied Sciences, graduated in 1987, with a degree in engineering. He then studied law, taking the second state examination, at LMU Munich in 1995. In same year, he was admitted to the bar. Until 1999, he was employed as a department head, of an international company in the information and telecommunications sector.

Political career

Career in local politics

  • 1989–1994: District Chairman of the Junge Union in Miesbach
  • 1994–1999: District Chairman of the Junge Union of Upper Bavaria
  • Member of local, district and regional executives of the CSU
  • District Chairman of the Upper Bavaria Small Business Union and Vice-Chairman for Bavaria
  • Member of the Miesbach District Council

Member of the European Parliament (1999–2008)

Between 1999 and 2008, Radwan was a Member of the European Parliament for Bavaria with the Christian Social Union in Bavaria, Member of the Bureau of the European People's Party and sat on the European Parliament's Committee on Economic and Monetary Affairs.

He was a substitute for the Committee on Legal Affairs and a vice-chair of the Delegation for relations with the Mashreq countries. Between 2004 and 2008, he was the EPP parliamentary group’s spokesperson on economic affairs.

Member of the Bavarian State Parliament (2008–2013)

In the 2008 Bavarian state elections, Radwan was elected to the Landtag of Bavaria. During his term in office, he served on the Committee on Budgetary and Finance Affairs as well as on the Committee on Federal and European Affairs. Within his parliamentary group, he was a member of the working group on defence policy.

In late 2012, Radwan and Ilse Aigner, who was about to leave national politics to run for state office, announced that they would switch electoral districts. As a consequence, Radwan took over Aigner’s district and ran for a seat in the Bundestag.

Member of the German Bundestag (2013–present)

Radwan has been a member of the German Bundestag since the 2013 federal elections. He has since been serving on the Finance Committee, the Committee on Foreign Affairs and its Subcommittee on the United Nations, International Organizations and Globalization. In addition, he is a member of the parliament’s delegation to the Parliamentary Assembly of the Mediterranean.

As member of the Committee on Foreign Affairs, Radwan serves as his parliamentary group’s rapporteur on relations with the Middle East, the Maghreb and Sudan. On the Finance Committee, he is the group’s rapporteur on the Euro and the banking union.

Other activities

After serving as Of counsel with the Munich office of law firm GSK Stockmann + Kollegen until 2015, Radwan and former finance minister Theo Waigel joined Waigel Rechtsanwälte in 2016.

In addition to his legal practice, Radwan holds the following positions:

References

  1. ↑ "Members of Parliament". Deutscher Bundestag. Retrieved 3 September 2024.
  2. ↑ Ulrike Heidenreich (3 December 2012), "Ich geh' halt nicht damit hausieren" Süddeutsche Zeitung.
  3. ↑ Christin Nünemann (15 January 2016), Familiensache: Münchner GSK-Team macht sich selbstständig Juve.
  4. ↑ Advisory Board German-Mozambican Society.
  5. ↑ Members Kangaroo Group.