Dr. Sergey Lagodinsky is a German lawyer, author and a Member of the European Parliament (Greens/EFA), serving as Vice-Chair of the Greens/EFA Groupe. He is Chair of the European Parliament's Delegation to the Euronest Parliamentary Assembly, Member of the Committees on Legal Affairs and on Foreign Affairs, as well as Substitute Member of the Committee on Industry, Research and Energy, as well as Greens/EFA Spokesperson for Russia and the United States.
Sergey Lagodinsky studied Law in Goettingen and Public Administration at Harvard. From 2003 to 2008, he served as Program Director, later as a consultant to the Berlin office of the American Jewish Committee. Later on, he worked as a lawyer at Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP.
From 2012 until joining the European Parliament in 2019, he was Director of the Department EU/North America/Turkey of the Heinrich Böll Foundation. In the 10th legislative period, he served as Chair of the EU-Turkey Delegation and as Deputy Chair of the Legal Affairs Committee.