Stephanie Cox (politician)

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Stephanie Cox
Stephanie Cox (2018)

Stephanie Cox (born January 31, 1989 in Sydney ) is an Austrian entrepreneur and politician ( NOW ). From November 9, 2017 to October 22, 2019, she was a member of the Austrian National Council .

Life

Cox has lived in Austria since she was a child. She began her career as a freelance consultant and coach for start-ups . From 2010 to 2012 she was a project manager at Start Europe (now: Pioneers ), then a researcher and lecturer for the Talkshow Africa project in Tanzania and an employee at Ashoka , an American non-profit organization promoting social entrepreneurship. From 2010 she worked as a moderator and organizer of events and meetings - for example for the Rise Up Summit in Cairo or the DNX Global in Berlin.

From 2009 to 2013 she taught English at the Berlitz School in Vienna and from 2010 studied cultural and social anthropology with a focus on economic and organizational anthropology at the University of Vienna . She spent a semester abroad at the University of Utrecht . In 2015 she completed her studies with a BA .

In 2014 she was co-founder and organizer of TEDx Donauinsel, and in 2016 co-founder of Opportunities: reich , the Austrian trade fair for refugees. Since 2014, Cox has been a member of the Global Shapers Community , a worldwide association of young people who want to take responsibility for the planet.

Political activity

Stephanie Cox entered the Austrian National Council as a political career changer on November 9, 2017, alongside six other mandataries from the former Pilz List (since December 2018: NOW ). At the age of 28 she is one of the 13 youngest MPs in the 86th legislative period . She has been the spokeswoman for education, digitization and equal treatment in the parliamentary club of NOW . Cox has received media attention, among other things, for her demands for an inclusive and equitable education system, the development of an Austrian strategy for the use of artificial intelligence and her urgent request that the Austrian government take the demands of the activists of Fridays For Future seriously. After the government under Federal Chancellor Sebastian Kurz was voted out of office, Cox announced on July 2, 2019 that it would no longer run in the early National Council elections in 2019 .

Web links

Commons : Stephanie Cox  - Collection of Images, Videos and Audio Files

proof

  1. ↑ Now: List mushroom in parliament with a new name . In: news.ORF.at . November 19, 2018 ( orf.at [accessed November 19, 2018]).
  2. ↑ Huffington Post : Who are the Global Shapers? , September 3, 2015
  3. ↑ Republic of Austria, Parliamentary Administration : Age structure in the National Council on November 24, 2017. In: parlament.gv.at. July 24, 2017, accessed August 1, 2019 .
  4. ↑ Stephanie Cox: My Vision. In: Stephanie Cox's website. Stephanie Cox, accessed August 1, 2019 .
  5. ↑ Cox on the educational program: "Anyone who is born without a golden spoon or is different is unlucky". In: bizeps.at. BIZEPS - Center for Self-Determined Living, December 17, 2017, accessed on August 1, 2019 .
  6. ↑ Austria is dawdling with AI strategy. In: futurezone.at. Futurezone GmbH, August 24, 2018, accessed on August 1, 2019 .
  7. ↑ Urgent on climate change demos: NOW calls for CO2 tax. In: vienna.at. Russmedia Digital GmbH, March 26, 2019, accessed on August 1, 2019 .
  8. ↑ Stefan Mey: Stephanie Cox will no longer run for the National Council. In: derbrutkasten.at. Brutkasten Media GmbH, July 2, 2019, accessed on August 1, 2019 .
personal data
SURNAME Cox, Stephanie
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian entrepreneur and politician
DATE OF BIRTH January 31, 1989
PLACE OF BIRTH Sydney