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Katharina Dröge (born 16 September 1984) is a German economist and politician of Alliance 90/The Greens. She has been a member of the Bundestag since 2013 and one of the managers (Parlamentarische Geschäftsführerin) of the Green parliamentary group since 2018.
Education and early career
On a scholarship of the German Academic Scholarship Foundation, Dröge studied economics at the University of Cologne from 2004 to 2010.
From 2010 until 2013, Dröge worked at the State Ministry of Climate Change, Environment, Agriculture and Consumer Protection of North Rhine-Westphalia.
Political career
Dröge has been a member of the German Bundestag since the 2013 elections, representing Cologne’s Ehrenfeld, Nippes, and Chorweiler districts. In parliament, she has since been serving on the Committee on Economic Affairs and Energy. She is also her parliamentary group's spokesperson on competition policy. In addition to her committee assignments, she is a member of the German-British Parliamentary Friendship Group.
Other activities
Regulatory agencies
- Federal Network Agency for Electricity, Gas, Telecommunications, Post and Railway (BNetzA), Alternate Member of the Advisory Board (since 2014)
Non-profit organizations
- German Foundation for World Population (DSW), Member of the Parliamentary Advisory Board
- Amnesty International, Member
- Terre des Femmes, Member