Gerhard Schick

Gerhard Schick
Gerhard Schick in 2014.
Member of the German Bundestag
Incumbent
Assumed office
2005
Personal details
Born 18 April 1972
Hechingen, Baden-Württemberg
Nationality German
Political party Green Party
Alma mater University of Freiburg
Profession Economist
Website www.gerhardschick.net

Gerhard Schick (born 18 April 1972) is a German politician, specifically a Green Party representative in the Bundestag.

Education and early career

After completing his secondary school education in 1991 at the Gymnasium Hechingen, Schick completed his Community Service and graduated in 1992. Between 1992 and 1998 Schick continued with his economics education at the University of Bamberg, University of Freiburg and Complutense University of Madrid where he was awarded his Diplom in Economics. Subsequently, until 2001 he was a research associate at the Walter Eucken Institute Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg and then from 2001 to 2004 the Market Economy Foundation in Berlin. In 2002 he was awarded a Ph.D. in Finance from the Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg for his work on "Dual Federalism in Europe".[1] In 2004 he joined the Bertelsmann Foundation in Gütersloh as a project manager.

Political career

Schick has been a member of the German Parliament since the 2005 federal elections, representing Baden-Württemberg. He has been regularly elected from the land list, having unsuccessfully contested the Mannheim constituency.

Schick has been the Alliance '90/The Greens parliamentary group’s spokesman on financial policy since 2007. From its inception in 2008, he has been a member of the Financial Markets Panel, which provides parliamentary oversight of the Financial Market Stabilization Agency (FMSA). Following the 2013 federal elections, he was elected deputy chairman of the Finance Committee.

Additional to this he has written several publications.[2]

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