Ms. Doris Fiala-Goldiger MP
Parliament:
Swiss Parliament
Political Party:
Freisinnig-Demokratische Partei Schweiz Ms. Fiala-Goldiger is a Swiss politician from the Freisinnig-Demokratische Partei Schweiz (FDP). She holds degrees in commerce and public relations. From 2000 to 2007 Ms. Fiala-Goldiger was a member of the local council of the city of Zurich. In April 2004, she became president of the FDP for the canton of Zurich and in 2007 was nominated to the Federal Assembly. She is a member of the Commission on Science, Education and Culture.
Mr. Knut Fleckenstein MEP
Parliament:
European Parliament
Political Party:
Group of the Progressive Alliance of Socialists and Democrats Mr. Fleckenstein was born in Bad Nauheim, Germany in 1953, and he is presently the Chairman of the Delegation to the EU-Russia Parliamentary Cooperation Committee in the European Parliament. In his capacity as a Member of European Parliament, he is also a member of the Committee on Transport and Tourism, and of the Delegation to the Euronest Parliamentary Assembly.
Mr. Fleckenstein joined the Social Democratic Party (SPD) in 1974. From 1994-2004 and since 2007, he has served as a member of the Hamburg executive of the SPD. Mr. Fleckenstein has also been a member of the European Affairs Committee of the SPD Executive since 2008.
Previously, he was the Spokesman and Head of Protocol of the State Parliament of Hamburg, and the Spokesperson and Head of Cabinet of Vice Mayor, Head of European Affairs Department, in the State Government Hamburg.
A proponent of cultural pursuits, Mr. Fleckenstein is a partner and chair on the Supervisory Board of the Ernst Deutsch Theatre Company, in Hamburg. He has been a Member of the Executive of the Social Democratic Cultural Forum Berlin since 2007 and is also the Founding President and Member of the Board of the Cultural Forum Hamburg.
Mr. Glyn Ford
Mr. Ford, a former MEP, was a member of the following committees: International Trade, Foreign Affairs, Security and Defence and Petitions. Mr. Ford has extensive experience in election observation having participated in missions in South Africa, Kenya, Cambodia, and more recently in Indonesia, Ukraine and Haiti. Mr. Ford was Chief EU Observer of the eight month long EU Election Observation Mission to Indonesia and the Chief of the Parliament observation mission in Haiti in February 2006.
