| Andrea Wechsler | |
| Honorific-Suffix: | MEP |
| Office: | Member of the European Parliament |
| Termstart: | 16 July 2024 |
| Constituency: | Germany |
| Birth Date: | df=y 19 June 1977 |
| Birth Place: | Ulm, Germany |
| Party: | Christian Democratic Union |
| Otherparty: | European People's Party |
| Alma Mater: | University of Oxford Columbia Law School Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich Peking University |
Andrea Wechsler (born 19 June 1977) is a German professor and politician of the Christian Democratic Union. She was elected member of the European Parliament in 2024.[1]
Wechsler joined the Young Union at the age of 15.[2] She holds a Master of Arts in jurisprudence from the University of Oxford, a Master of Laws from Columbia Law School, a Master of Laws and a Ph.D. from the Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich, and a Chinese language diploma from the Peking University.[3] In 2001 she interned at the coordination office of the World Intellectual Property Organization and was a clerk for European Court of Justice judge Ninon Colneric.[4]
From 2002 to 2005 Wechsler was a management consultant for McKinsey & Company and Asia House.[4] She was a research fellow and programme coordinator at the Max Planck Institute for Innovation and Competition from 2008 to 2011, and became an affiliated research fellow at the institute in 2011.[4] She began working for the China-EU School of Law in 2008, and became a Max Weber Fellow at the European University Institute in 2011.[4] Since 2013 she has been a professor in economic law at Pforzheim University.[5]
In the 2021 Baden-Württemberg state election, Wechsler was a candidate for the Ludwigsburg constituency.[5] For the 2024 European Parliament election, she was the lead candidate of the CDU in Baden-Württemberg.[6]