Emma Wiesner

Emma Wiesner (born 11 November 1992) is a Swedish politician for the Centre Party, and former energy systems engineer.^[1][2] Wiesner has been a Member of the European Parliament since 4 February 2021.^[3]

Emma Wiesner MEP
Member of the European Parliament for Sweden
Incumbent
Assumed office 4 February 2021
Parliamentary group	Renew Europe
Personal details
Born	(1992-11-11) 11 November 1992 (age 32) Västerås, Sweden
Political party	Centre Party
Alma mater	Uppsala University
Occupation	Engineer, politician

Political career

Wiesner started her political career as a 13 year old, after having seen Al Gore's film An Inconvenient Truth. After realizing that the environmental movement was her major political issue she chose to join the green liberal Centre Party, where she began regional chairman for the youth wing.^[4]

In the run-up to the 2019 European Parliament election, Wiesner was third on the Centre party list with a campaign slogan to bring "new energy to Europe" and wanting to increase the renewable energy in the union.^[5] The Centre party won two places in the election and even though Wiesner received more than 20,683 votes,^[6] it was not enough to reach over the threshold.^[7]

2021–present: Member of the European Parliament

On 11 December 2020, it was announced that Wiesner was going to replace Fredrick Federley's seat in the European Parliament, after his resignation the same day.^[8] At 28 years of age, she became Sweden’s youngest member of the European Parliament.^[9]

In parliament Wiesner is a full member of the Committee on the Environment, Public Health and Food Safety and the Committee on Fisheries. She is also a substitute member of the Industry, Research and Energy committee (ITRE), the European Parliament Committee on Agriculture and Rural Development and the Special Committee for the Protection of Animals in Transport (ANIT)^[10][11]