Michael Gahler

Foreign Affairs Committee

Coordinator of the EPP Group

Meet Michael Gahler

Member of European Parliament

Michael Gahler has been a Member of the European Parliament since 1999 and is currently serving as coordinator of the EPP Group in the committee on foreign affairs, as a member of the subcommittee on security and defence, and is a substitute member of the committee on transport and tourism. He is vice chairman of the EP’s delegation to the ACP-EU Joint Parliamentary Assembly, member of the delegation for relations with South Africa as well as substitute member of the delegation for relations with the Pan-African Parliament.

Mr Gahler studied law in Germany, with further studies in France, and later joined the diplomatic academy of the German foreign office (1990-1991), after which he spent two years as a desk officer in the department of ‘international environmental politics’. From 1993-1995, he was the desk officer in the international office of the Christian Democratic Union (CDU). Between 1995 and 1999, again with the German foreign office, he was a desk officer for the Baltic States and the Council of the Baltic Sea states.