Alev Korun

Alev Korun (2008)

Alev Korun (born September 27, 1969 in Ankara ) is an Austrian politician ( Greens ). Since November 18, 2005, she has been a member of the State Parliament and a member of the Vienna City Council and from October 28, 2008 to November 8, 2017, a member of the Austrian National Council .

education and profession

Alev Korun attended elementary school and grammar school in Turkey and graduated in 1988 from the commercial academy at the Austrian St. Georgs College in Istanbul . She then studied political science and gender studies (subject combination) at the Universities of Innsbruck and Vienna .

Korun worked on anti-racism and integration initiatives in Tyrol and Vienna and in 1993 worked in the Green Education Workshop in Innsbruck. From 1993 to 1999 she was employed at the Vienna Advisory Center for Migrants, where she took on legal and social support for immigrants. From 1998 to 1999 she was also an NGO representative on the integration advisory board of the Ministry of the Interior. In 1998 she co-founded the European Network Against Racism and from 1999 to 2005 was a specialist in minorities, migration and human rights for the Green Parliamentary Club.

politics

Alev Korun was District Councilor of the Greens in Vienna's Landstrasse district between 2001 and 2005 . Until 2003, she also ran the Green Club in the district as a club chairwoman. From 2001 to 2005 Korun held the position of a member of the regional board of the Vienna Green Party and from 2002 to 2005 the Deputy State Spokesperson for the Vienna Green Party. In November 2005, she moved to the Vienna State Parliament and City Council as a member. She is integration and human rights spokesperson for the Wiener Grünen and represents the Greens in the 18th legislative period in the committee "Integration, Women's Issues, Consumer Protection and Personnel". According to her own statements, her political focus lies in the areas of integration, diversity and equal treatment policy, anti-discrimination, anti-racism, multilingualism and schools, migration and democracy policy and minority policy. Korun took third place on the federal list of Greens in the 2008 National Council election and entered the National Council on October 28, 2008.

Awards

2017: Great Golden Decoration of Honor for Services to the Republic of Austria

Web links

Commons : Alev Korun - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Alev Korun on the website of the Austrian Parliament

Individual evidence

↑ President of the National Council, Bures, presents the Republic's decorations to MPs . OTS notification dated November 7, 2017, accessed November 10, 2017.

personal data
SURNAME	Korun, Alev
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Austrian politician (GREEN), member of the state parliament, member of the National Council
DATE OF BIRTH	September 27, 1969
PLACE OF BIRTH	Ankara

[1] President of the National Council, Bures, presents the Republic's decorations to MPs . OTS notification dated November 7, 2017, accessed November 10, 2017.