Brussels Forum Session: Defense as a Driver of Innovation: Ideas from Taskforce Members and Friends
Marie-Agnes Strack-Zimmermann has been a member of the European Parliament since 2024. She was a member of the Bundestag for nearly seven years before then. During that time, she chaired the legislature’s Defense Committee.
Strack-Zimmermann has served as deputy federal chairwoman of the Free Democratic Party and chairwoman of the party’s parliamentary group. She was also mayor of Düsseldorf and, for nearly 20 years, a member of the city council. She worked for over 20 years as an independent representative for Tessloff, a book publisher.
Strack-Zimmermann holds a PhD from Ludwig-Maximillians-University in Munich.