Judith SARGENTINI

D-ZADelegation for relations with South Africa

LIBECommittee on Civil Liberties, Justice and Home Affairs

DEVECommittee on Development
D-TRDelegation to the EU-Turkey Joint Parliamentary Committee

• Modern History, University of Amsterdam (specialising in totalitarian systems and the democratisation of Europe)(1999); Master of Arts (1999).
• Communication officer at Europa Centrum, providing young people with information on the European Union. International campaign coordinator for Fatal Transactions, a foundation highlighting issues relating to war economies and trade in conflict diamonds, oil, coltan and other strategic raw materials. Negotiator in the Kimberley Process scheme for worldwide certification of uncut diamonds (2000-2003). Lobbyist at the Netherlands Institute for South Africa in The Hague, Brussels and Johannesburg in the areas of development cooperation, human rights, democratisation, fair elections, fair trade, conduct of multinationals, and the situation in Zimbabwe, Congo, Angola and South Africa (2003-2007). Consultant for Eurostep, a network of progressive development organisations in Brussels (2007-).
• Member of the board of Dwars (GroenLinks youth organisation) and previously active in the PSJG (PSP youth organisation)(1991-1992). Secretary of the Dutch National Students' Union, with special responsibility for quality of teaching, internationalisation and emancipation (1995-1996).
• Board member of the European Students' Union (ESIB), among other things helping Eastern European student organisations in their fight for democracy (1998).
• Chair of the GreenLeft party in the Amsterdam Municipal Council; previously active as city councillor and dual city councillor (duoraadslid). Portfolios: public order, general affairs, employment and income, poverty policy and, in previous years, also diversity, education and culture (1998-2009).
• Author of Jij en Europa (2000).