Doris Barnett


Doris Barnett is a German politician and member of the SPD.

Political career

Barnett has been a member of the German Bundestag since the 1994 federal elections, representing the Ludwigshafen/Frankenthal electoral district. In the 1994 and 1998 elections, her opponent of the CDU was incumbent Chancellor Helmut Kohl. For her election campaign in 1998, she recruited Marc S. Ellenbogen as her advisor.
Barnett has been part of the SPD parliamentary group’s leadership since 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.
Currently a member of the Budget Committee and its Sub-Committee on European Affairs, Barnett serves as her parliamentary group's rapporteur on the budget of the Federal Foreign Office, including Germany’s humanitarian aid. In this capacity, she also belongs to the SPD working group on the national budget, led by Johannes Kahrs. Since 2018, she has been chairing 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 has been serving as deputy chairwoman of the German-Russian Parliamentary Friendship Group since 2018.
Barnett has been part of the German delegation to the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe since 2006, where she serves on the Committee on Political Affairs and Democracy. In addition, she has been the chairwoman of the German delegation to the Parliamentary Assembly of the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe since 2009. In that capacity, she chaired the Assembly’s observer mission during the 2019 Ukrainian presidential election.

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