Renate weber biography of albert

Romanian politician

Renate Weber (born 3 August 1955 in Botoșani, Botoșani County, Romania) is a Romanian lawyer and human rights activist who, in November 2007, was elected as Member of the European Parliament.

She is the first Romanian appointed as Chief of an EU Election Observation Mission.^[1] Between 2004–2005 she was Advisor on constitutional and legislative matters to then President of Romania, Traian Băsescu.

She previously served as the Romanian Ombudsman as well from June 2019 until mid June 2021.

Biography

Renate Weber graduated from the Law Faculty of the University of Bucharest, in 1979 and became a lawyer at the Bucharest Bar.

In the 1990s, Weber has become one of the strongest voices of the Romanian civil society, being involved in a number of national and international non-profit organization, such as the International Helsinki Federation for Human Rights (Vienna), where she was Vice-chair (1994–1996), or the Association for the Pr