NAME: Lichtenberger, Eva.

AUSTRIA

POLITICAL GROUP: Group of the Greens/European Free Alliance (Greens/EFA).

PARTY: Die Grünen - Die Grüne Alternative.

CONSTITUENCY: Austria.

DATE OF LATEST ELECTION: 2008.

Committees: Member of the Committee on Transport and Tourism since 2004; Member of the Delegation to the EU-Mexico Joint Parliamentary Committee since 2004; Substitute, Committee on Legal Affairs since 2004; Delegation for Relations with the People's Republic of China since 2004; Delegation to the Euro-Latin American Parliamentary Assembly since 2004.

Political Career: Member of the European Parliament since 2004; Member of the Austrian Parliament 1999-2004; Member of the Regional Government of the Tyrol 1994-1999; Chairwoman of the Greens in the Tyrol Regional Assembly 1989-1994.

Special Political Interests: Motorised transit and cross-border pollution; software patents and open source; Tibet and Sino-European relations.

Profession: Teacher for primary and secondary schools.

Titles/honours/decorations: Innsbruck University, PhD in Political Science 1987.

Education: Innsbruck Secondary School for the Arts; Pedagogical Academy, Teacher Training.

Qualification: PhD; Teaching Diploma; Secondary Education Diploma.

Languages: German, English and Italian.

Political Affiliations: Austrian Green Party.

Author of: Love labour´s lost in Austria. (2005); (with B Meusburger) Transit. Harte Auseinandersetzung zu erwarten. (1992); (with B Meusburger) Argumente gegen den Anschluss. Weder EG noch EWR: Europa ist mehr! (1992); Software-Erstellung aus psychologischer Sicht. (1987).

Hobbies: Italian culture and lifestyle; history and reading modern literature.

Born: 1 July 1954, Zams, Tyrol, Austria.

Marital status: Single.

Children: 0.