Yannick Elias Shetty (born 26 April 1995) is an Austrian politician from

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. He was sworn in as a member of the National Council on 23 October 2019 following his election in the

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Life

Education and early career

Shetty was born in Vienna as the son of an Indian father and an Austrian mother with

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ancestry. He grew up in

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, where he attended the

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from 2005 and graduated there in 2013. After completing his community service in 2013/14 as a paramedic with the

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, he began studying law at the

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in 2015, which he successfully completed with a

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in March 2021. In 2016 and 2017 he worked for Dorda Rechtsanwälte. Shetty was also a legal assistant at ''Herbst Kinsky Rechtsanwälte GmbH'' from 2018 to 2020. In April 2022 he negotiated in court proceedings on behalf of the public prosecutor's office. Shetty completed his judicial practice from 2022 to 2023 in the district of the Higher Regional Court of Vienna. Shetty is an openly gay man. In the wake of the

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, he volunteered for community service.

Political career

After graduating from high school, he joined the

party, founded in October 2012 by Matthias Strolz, for which he coordinated the election campaign for the

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and 2017 national elections in

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. From 2013 to 2015 he was a member of the federal board of JUNOS – Young Liberal Students, and in 2015/16 he served as deputy regional chairman of JUNOS Vienna. From 2016 to 2018 he was chairman of the JUNOS students. In the 2017 ÖH elections, he ran as the national top candidate of the JUNOS students and achieved a result of 12.61 per cent. Since 2015 he has been a district councillor in the eighth district of Vienna,

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, where he also serves as NEOS parliamentary group chairman. In the 2019 National Council election, he ran for NEOS in third place in the Vienna constituency and in tenth place on the federal list. On 23 October 2019, at the age of 24, he was sworn in as the youngest member of the Austrian National Council at the beginning of the XXVII legislative period. In the NEOS parliamentary group, he acts as area spokesman for integration, youth, LGBTI and sport. Shetty was re-elected in the

2024 Austrian legislative election General election, Legislative elections were held in Austria on 29 September 2024 to elect the 28th National Council (Austria), National Council, the lower house of Austria's bicameral parliament. The election saw the far-right Freedom Party o ...

. In March 2025, he was elected parliamentary leader of NEOS. He plays football for ''FC Nationalrat'', the football team of the Austrian Parliament.

References

External links

Yannick Shetty
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Offizielle Website

Yannick Shetty
on the party website