Lukas Mandl

Lukas Mandl (born 12 July 1979) is an Austrian politician of the Austrian People's Party (ÖVP) who has been a Member of the European Parliament since November 2017 and was re-elected in 2019.[3]

Lukas Mandl

MEP
Member of the European Parliament
for Austria
Assumed office
30 November 2017[1][2]
Personal details
Born (1979-07-12) 12 July 1979
Vienna, Austria
NationalityAustrian
Political party Austrian People's Party
European People's Party

Early life and education

Lukas Mandl was born as fourth of five children to Victoire Van Ditzhuyzen and Harald Mandl. He graduated in communications from the University of Vienna in 2004. From 2002 until 2005, he also completed a traineeship at the Federation of Austrian Industries (IV).

Member of the European Parliament, 2017–present

Mandl took the seat of Elisabeth Köstinger in 2017. During his first term, he served on the Committee on the Environment, Public Health and Food Safety and on the Committee on Petitions. Following the 2019 elections, he moved to the Committee on Development, the Committee on Foreign Affairs and its Subcommittee on Security and Defence. In 2020, he also joined the Special Committee on Foreign Interference in all Democratic Processes in the European Union.[4]

In addition to his committee assignments, Mandl has been chairing the parliament's delegation for relations with the Korean Peninsula since 2020. He is also a member of the URBAN Intergroup.[5]

Other activities
gollark: Which didn't stop people trying SQL injection on my bot when I said that I had switched some features over to SQLite instead of a big JSON file.
gollark: If you're doing it as a challenge thing, it's hard because it has to be/seem/work as if it is insecure in a way which is generally applicable but not *actually* insecure such that your stuff can be compromised.
gollark: I mean, sure, but you would have to go to significant effort.
gollark: People still tried SQL injection on my discord bot because of course.
gollark: Modern programming environments and stuff make it quite hard to *accidentally* introduce that kind of bug. Although people still manage.

References
  1. "Key dates ahead". European Parliament. 20 May 2017. Retrieved 28 May 2019.
  2. "Key dates ahead". BBC News. 22 May 2017. Retrieved 28 May 2019.
  3. Uhr, 14 09; Mai 2019, 28 (28 May 2019). "Die Neuen im EU-Parlament: EU-Wahl: Strache müsste bis 2. Juli auf Mandat verzichten". www.kleinezeitung.at (in German). Retrieved 3 March 2020.CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)
  4. Members of the Special Committee on Foreign Interference in all Democratic Processes in the European Union European Parliament, press release of July 9, 2020.
  5. Members URBAN Intergroup.
  6. Board of Trustees Institute of the Regions of Europe (IRE).
  7. Lukas Mandl - Declaration of financial interests, 25 December 2017 European Parliament
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