Doris Barnett (born 22 May 1953) is a German

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of the

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(SPD) who served as a member of the German

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from 1994 to 2021, representing Ludwigshafen/Frankenthal.

Political career

Barnett first became a member of the German

in the 1994 federal elections, representing the Ludwigshafen/Frankenthal electoral district. In the 1994 and 1998 elections, her opponent of the CDU was incumbent Chancellor

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. For her election campaign in

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, she recruited Marc S. Ellenbogen as her advisor. Barnett was part of the SPD parliamentary group’s leadership from 1998. Within the group, she served as a member of the working group on the world economy between 2003 and 2013. Barnett was a member of the Committee on Labour and Social Affairs between 1994 and 2005. From 2002 to 2005, she also served on the parliament’s Council of Elders, which – among other duties – determines daily legislative agenda items and assigns committee chairpersons based on party representation. A long-time member of the Budget Committee and its Sub-Committee on European Affairs, Barnett served as her parliamentary group's

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on the budget of the

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, including Germany’s

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. In this capacity, she also belonged to the SPD working group on the national budget. From 2018, she chaired the Sub-Committee on European Affairs. In 2019, she also joined the Committee on Economic Affairs and Development. In addition to her committee assignments, Barnett served as deputy chairwoman of the German-Russian Parliamentary Friendship Group from 2018 to 2021. Barnett was part of the German delegation to the

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from 2006 to 2021, where she served on the Committee on Political Affairs and Democracy. In addition, she was the chairwoman of the German delegation to the

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(OSCE) from 2009. In that capacity, she chaired the Assembly’s observer mission during the

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Other activities

Corporate boards

* RSBK Strategie Beratung Kommunikation AG, Member of the Advisory BoardAdvisory Board
RSBK Strategie Beratung Kommunikation AG. * Saint-Gobain ISOVER G+H AG, Member of the Supervisory Board

Non-profits

* Mannheim University of Applied Management Studies (HdWM), Member of the Board of Trustees * German Friends of the Weizmann Institute of Science, Member
Global Panel Foundation
Member of the Board of Directors *

Institute for European Politics The Institute for European Politics (IEP; German: ''Institut für Europäische Politik'') is a German foreign and European policy research centre based in Berlin. It is an independent non-governmental organization focused on the research of Euro ...

(IEP), Member of the Board of Trustees * Deutsche Arbeitsgerichtsverband (DArbGV), Member * German United Services Trade Union (ver.di), Member *

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(IG BCE), Member

Recognition

* 2016 –

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