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Kai Whittaker (born 10 April 1985) is a German CDU politician. He has been a member of the Bundestag since 2013, representing the constituency of Rastatt in Baden-Württemberg.
Born in Baden-Baden to a British father and German mother, Whittaker completed his Abitur at the Markgraf-Ludwig-Gymnasium in 2004. Following his Zivildienst, he studied Economics and Management at the University of Bristol, graduating in 2008. After a year working for Leoni AG, Whittaker then pursued a master's degree in European Political Economy at the London School of Economics, graduating in 2010. Between 2011 and 2013, he worked for Herrenknecht.
Whittaker was directly elected to the Bundestag in 2013 with 53.5% of the vote in his constituency. He has since been a member of the Committee on Labor and Social Affairs, serving as his parliamentary group's rapporteur on public procurement, social welfare and the effects of digitization of work.