Claudia Gamon

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Claudia Gamon (2019)

Claudia Angela Gamon ([ ˈklaʊ̯dɪa andʒela ɡaˈmoːn ], born December 23, 1988 in Feldkirch ) is an Austrian politician ( NEOS ). She has been a member of the European Parliament since July 2, 2019 . Gamon was previously a member of the Austrian National Council from October 2015 to June 2019 . In 2011 and 2013 she was Austria-wide top candidate for JuLis (today: JUNOS ), a liberal student parliamentary group in the ÖH elections, where she was sent to the federal student body .

education and profession

Claudia Gamon was born in the town of Feldkirch in the Austrian state of Vorarlberg and grew up in the market town of Nenzing in Walgau . She attended the Bundesgymnasium Bludenz , where she graduated from high school in 2007 . Gamon then began her bachelor's degree in international business administration at the Vienna University of Economics and Business, which she successfully completed in 2011. From 2011 to 2015 she completed the CEMS Master’s degree in International Management at WU Vienna. During her studies, Claudia Gamon spent a Erasmus - semester abroad at the Bordeaux Ecole de Management and participated in the Global Advancement programs of the Academic Forum for Foreign Affairs part. During the master’s course, she also completed a semester abroad in Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium .

From 2010 to 2013, Claudia Gamon was responsible for marketing and sales in her parents' wine business alongside her studies. From June 2013 she worked in various positions at the federal NEOS party, including as assistant to the election campaign manager and the federal manager, as well as in charge of communications and press. From January to August 2015 Gamon worked professionally in project management at the ÖAMTC , before she devoted herself entirely to parliamentary activities in the National Council from October 2015.

Political activity

Activity in the student body

Claudia Gamon was the Deputy Federal Chairwoman of the Young Liberals in charge of marketing and communication since 2009; in 2010 she became Vice President of the Alpbach Vienna Initiative Group for the first time with responsibility for communication and took part in the European Forum Alpbach for the first time as a scholarship holder .

In the 2011 ÖH election , Gamon stood as the Austria-wide top candidate for the JuLis and was sent to the federal student body for the first time as a mandate . Gamon also stood as a JuLis top candidate in the 2013 university elections and again became a mandate of the federal government. In November 2014, with the election of the federal board of JUNOS - Junge liberale NEOS , the successor organization to JuLis, Gamon resigned as deputy federal chairwoman of JUNOS. As a result, Gamon did not stand as a candidate in the 2015 ÖH elections.

Federal politics with NEOS

Claudia Gamon as part of the 2014 European Parliament election campaign

From 2011, Gamon was involved as a co-initiator of the initiative against church privileges to bring about a referendum in April 2013. With the founding of the new NEOS - Das Neue Österreich party in October 2012, she concentrated her political work there.

In the National Council election in September 2013 , Claudia Gamon ran for NEOS in the Vienna Inner-East regional constituency as the top candidate and was also placed relatively high on the Vienna state list (4th place) and the NEOS federal list (6th place). However, Gamon initially missed a mandate, while NEOS made it into the National Council for the first time . Claudia Gamon subsequently became an employee of the NEOS federal party and part of the NEOS regional team for Vienna.

After Beate Meinl-Reisinger announced her departure from the National Council on September 24, 2015 in the run-up to the Vienna state and municipal council elections , NEOS nominated Claudia Gamon as her successor. From October 12, 2015, Gamon represented NEOS as the club's youngest mandate in the National Council. In the National Council of the XXV. During the legislative period , Claudia Gamon was the area spokesperson for the NEOS Club for Science and Research, Court of Auditors, Women, Youth and Sport. She is a member of the National Council's committees for research, innovation and technology, for sports matters, the Court of Auditors Committee, the Standing Subcommittee of the Court of Auditors Committee and the Science Committee. In March 2017, Niko Alm resigned his mandate from the National Council, Claudia Gamon received the mandate that had become vacant in the Vienna electoral district , and Karin Doppelbauer received the mandate that had become vacant as a result . In the subsequent National Council election in Austria in 2017 , Gamon was re-elected to the National Council on the NEOS list of Vienna.

Member of the European Parliament

In December 2018, Gamon announced via Instagram that it would take first place in the internal NEOS candidate for the European Parliament elections. She wanted a “strong Europe” that would join forces to make decisions and be “successful, recognized, peaceful and prosperous”. At the end of a three-stage internal election process, Claudia Gamon was finally nominated on January 26, 2019 by the NEOS General Assembly as the party's top candidate in the European elections.

In the election on May 26, 2019, NEOS was able to win a mandate in the European Parliament for the second time since 2014 . The party received 8.44% of the votes cast and was thus able to increase the proportion of votes by 0.30% compared to the first time running in the European elections in 2014. Claudia Gamon was therefore sworn in as an Austrian MP for NEOS in the constituent session of the European Parliament on July 2, 2019 . Doris Hager-Hämmerle succeeded her as a member of the National Council . In the 9th electoral term she is a full member of the Committee on Industry, Research and Energy (ITRE) and an alternate member of the Committee on the Internal Market and Consumer Protection (IMCO) and the Committee on the Environment, Public Health and Food Safety (ENVI).

Web links

Commons : Claudia Gamon  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Claudia Angela Gamon on the website of the Austrian Parliament ( Memento from April 11, 2017 in the Internet Archive )
  2. ↑ "Gamoon, like Tschamoon, Tschabruun or similar" (Twitter January 28, 2019 , 11:58 am)
  3. ^ Claudia Gamon at www.meineabektiven.at.
  4. ↑ Rosa Winkler-Hermaden: "We want a liberal party in the National Council". In: derStandard.at . May 27, 2011, accessed January 29, 2019 .
  5. ↑ Claudia Gamon is the top candidate of the JuLis. In: derStandard.at . March 21, 2013, accessed January 29, 2019 .
  6. ^ Claudia Gamon, Francophile WU student. In: diePresse.com . March 21, 2013, accessed January 29, 2019 .
  7. ^ Initiators of the popular initiative against church privileges on the side of the initiative against church privileges.
  8. ^ Marie-Theres Egyed, Rosa Winkler-Hermaden: “Frank Stronach invited us to dinner”. In: derStandard.at . March 14, 2013, accessed January 29, 2019 .
  9. ^ Vienna state election proposals for the 2013 National Council election. Retrieved from the website of the Federal Ministry of the Interior.
  10. ^ Federal election proposal NEOS for the National Council election 2013. Retrieved from the website of the Federal Ministry of the Interior.
  11. ^ National Council: Meinl-Reisinger resigns from mandate. In: diePresse.com . September 24, 2015, accessed January 29, 2019 .
  12. ↑ Iris Bonavida: Neos: Thatcher, Schmidt and Clinton as role models. In: diePresse.com . October 13, 2015, accessed January 29, 2019 .
  13. ^ Marie-Theres Egyed: Claudia Gamon wants to go to the EU Parliament. In: derStandard.at . December 9, 2018, accessed December 9, 2018 .
  14. ↑ Gamon as NEOS top candidate for EU election fix. In: ORF.at . January 26, 2019, accessed January 26, 2019 .
  15. ↑ EU election: 587,000 postal voters hardly changed. In: DiePresse.com . May 27, 2019, accessed June 5, 2019 .
  16. ↑ Three MPs say goodbye to the EU Parliament. In: Vorarlberger Nachrichten (VN.at). June 14, 2019, accessed June 14, 2019 .
  17. ↑ NEOS Europe. Retrieved April 1, 2020 .
personal data
SURNAME Gamon, Claudia
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Gamon, Claudia Angela (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian politician (NEOS)
DATE OF BIRTH December 23, 1988
PLACE OF BIRTH Feldkirch