Silvana Koch-Mehrin

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Silvana Koch-Mehrin MEP
Koch-Mehrin in 2023
Vice-President of the European Parliament
In office 14 July 2009 – 10 May 2011
President	Jerzy Buzek
Preceded by	Janusz Onyszkiewicz
Succeeded by	Giles Chichester
Member of the European Parliament
In office 20 July 2004 – 30 June 2014
Personal details
Born	(1970-11-17) 17 November 1970 (age 53) Wuppertal, West Germany (now Germany)
Political party	Free Democratic Party

Esther Silvana Koch-Mehrin (born 17 November 1970, in Wuppertal) is a former German politician of the Free Democratic Party of Germany who served as a Member of the European Parliament from 2004 to 2014.