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Dr. Sergey Lagodinsky

Vice-President, Greens/EFA | Member of the European Parliament

Dr. Sergey Lagodinsky is a German lawyer and author. He serves as Vice-President of the Group of the Greens/European Free Alliance (Greens/EFA) in the European Parliament, responsible for foreign affairs and digital policy.

He is Co-President of the Euronest Parliamentary Assembly and a member of the Committee on Foreign Affairs (AFET) and the Committee on Legal Affairs (JURI), as well as a substitute member of the Committee on Industry, Research and Energy (ITRE). Dr. Lagodinsky also acts as the Greens/EFA spokesperson on transatlantic relations and Russia.

He holds a law degree from the University of Goettingen and a Master in Public Administration from Harvard University. He obtained his doctorate in law from Humboldt University of Berlin. From 2003 to 2008, he served as Program Director and later as a consultant at the Berlin office of the American Jewish Committee. He subsequently worked as an attorney at Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP. From 2012 until his election to the European Parliament in 2019, he was Director of the Department for the EU, North America, and Turkey at the Heinrich Boell Foundation.

During the 9th parliamentary term, Dr. Lagodinsky served as Chair of the EU–Turkey Delegation and as Vice-Chair of the Committee on Legal Affairs.