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{{short description|German politician and member of the SPD|bot=PearBOT 5}}
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'''Doris Barnett''' (born 22 May 1953) is a German [[politician]] of the [[Social Democratic Party of Germany|Social Democratic Party]] (SPD) who served as a member of the German [[Bundestag]] from 1994 to 2021, representing [[Ludwigshafen/Frankenthal]].

==Political career==
Barnett first became a member of the German [[Bundestag]] in the [[1994 German federal election|1994 federal elections]], representing the Ludwigshafen/Frankenthal electoral district. In the 1994 and 1998 elections, her opponent of the CDU was incumbent Chancellor [[Helmut Kohl]].<ref>Christoph Schult (July 9, 1998), [http://www.zeit.de/1998/29/Schattenboxerin Schattenboxerin] ''[[Die Zeit]]''.</ref> For her election campaign in [[1998 German federal election|1998]], she recruited [[Marc S. Ellenbogen]] as her advisor.<ref>Christoph Schult (July 9, 1998), [http://www.zeit.de/1998/29/Schattenboxerin Schattenboxerin] ''[[Die Zeit]]''.</ref><ref>Jutta Witte (August 8, 1998), [http://www.abendblatt.de/archiv/1998/article204496933/Wende-in-Oggersheim.html Wende in Oggersheim?] ''[[Hamburger Abendblatt]]''.</ref>

Barnett was part of the SPD parliamentary group’s leadership from 1998. Within the group, she served as a member of the working group on the world economy between 2003 and 2013.

Barnett was a member of the Committee on Labour and Social Affairs between 1994 and 2005. From 2002 to 2005, she also served on the parliament’s [[Council of Elders of the Bundestag (Germany)|Council of Elders]], which – among other duties – determines daily legislative agenda items and assigns committee chairpersons based on party representation.

A long-time member of the Budget Committee and its Sub-Committee on European Affairs, Barnett served as her parliamentary group's [[rapporteur]] on the budget of the [[Foreign Office (Germany)|Federal Foreign Office]], including Germany’s [[humanitarian aid]]. In this capacity, she also belonged to the SPD working group on the national budget. From 2018, she chaired the Sub-Committee on European Affairs. In 2019, she also joined the Committee on Economic Affairs and Development.

In addition to her committee assignments, Barnett served as deputy chairwoman of the German-Russian Parliamentary Friendship Group from 2018 to 2021.

Barnett was part of the German delegation to the [[Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe]] from 2006 to 2021, where she served on the Committee on Political Affairs and Democracy. In addition, she was the chairwoman of the German delegation to the [[Parliamentary Assembly of the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe]] (OSCE) from 2009. In that capacity, she chaired the Assembly’s observer mission during the [[2019 Ukrainian presidential election]].<ref>[https://www.oscepa.org/news-a-media/press-releases/press-2019/international-election-observers-in-ukraine-to-hold-press-conference-on-monday-2 International election observers in Ukraine to hold press conference on Monday] [[Parliamentary Assembly of the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe]] (OSCE PA), press release of April 20, 2019.</ref>

==Other activities==
===Corporate boards===
* [[Rudolf Scharping|RSBK Strategie Beratung Kommunikation AG]], Member of the Advisory Board<ref>[http://www.rsbk.de/deu/unternehmen/beirat/ Advisory Board] [[Rudolf Scharping|RSBK Strategie Beratung Kommunikation AG]].</ref>
* [[Saint-Gobain|Saint-Gobain ISOVER G+H AG]], Member of the Supervisory Board

===Non-profits===
* Mannheim University of Applied Management Studies (HdWM), Member of the Board of Trustees
* [[Weizmann Institute of Science|German Friends of the Weizmann Institute of Science]], Member
* [http://globalpanel.org Global Panel Foundation], Member of the Board of Directors
* [[Institute for European Politics]] (IEP), Member of the Board of Trustees 
* Deutsche Arbeitsgerichtsverband (DArbGV), Member
* [[ver.di|German United Services Trade Union]] (ver.di), Member
* [[IG Bergbau, Chemie, Energie]] (IG BCE), Member

==Recognition==
* 2016 – [[Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany]]

==References==
{{Reflist}}

==External links==
* [http://www.doris-barnett.de/ Official Website] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131109112119/http://www.doris-barnett.de/ |date=2013-11-09 }} {{in lang|de}}
* [http://www.globalpanel.org/ Official Website of the Global Panel Foundation]

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