| Irina von Wiese | |
| Party: | Liberal Democrats |
| Constituency Mp: | London |
| Term Start: | 2 July 2019 |
| Term End: | 31 January 2020 |
| Predecessor: | Dr Charles Tannock |
| Successor: | Constituency abolished |
| Parliament: | European |
| Birth Date: | 11 September 1967 |
| Birth Place: | Cologne, West Germany (now Germany) |
| Nationality: | British, German |
| Children: | 1 |
| Alma Mater: | Harvard University |
Irina Stephanie von Wiese und Kaiserswaldau[1] (born 11 September 1967) is a British politician, who was a Liberal Democrat Member of the European Parliament (MEP) for London between 2019 and the United Kingdom's withdrawal from the EU.[2] [3]
In a council by-election in 2017, she stood unsuccessfully for election in the ward of Avonmore and Brook Green in Hammersmith and Fulham, coming third. She unsuccessfully stood in the Ravenscourt Park ward at the 2018 Hammersmith and Fulham borough election.[4]
She was elected a Member of the European Parliament for the London region in the 2019 European Parliament election, on the Liberal Democrat party list, assuming office on 2 July 2019. She sat within the Renew Europe group of liberal political parties and served as Vice-Chair on the European Parliament's Subcommittee on Human Rights (DROI).[5]
Until at least August 2019, she was formerly the Liberal Democrat prospective parliamentary candidate for Hammersmith in the 2019 United Kingdom general election.[6] [7] She was an unsuccessful candidate for the 2021 London Assembly election.[8] She was elected to serve as a councillor for the Borough & Bankside ward of Southwark London Borough Council in May 2022. She is standing again in the 2024 London Assembly election.[9]
Wiese holds both German and British citizenship.[10] She earned a Master of Public Administration (MPA) degree from Harvard University. She has one teenage daughter and has housed refugees in her London home since 2016, working with the charity Refugees at Home.[11]