| Metin Hakverdi | |
| Office: | Member of the Bundestag |
| Term Start: | 2013 |
| Predecessor: | Hans-Ulrich Klose |
| Birth Date: | 1969 6, df=yes |
| Birth Place: | Hamburg, West Germany |
| Party: | SPD |
| Nationality: | German |
Metin Hakverdi (born 25 June 1969) is a German lawyer and politician of the Social Democratic Party (SPD) who has been serving as a member of the Bundestag for the Hamburg-Bergedorf-Harburg constituency[1] since the 2013 German federal election.[2]
Hakverdi was born in Hamburg to a Turkish father and a German mother from East Germany. Much of his maternal family live in the United States.
He attended high school in Simi Valley, California, in 1985/86 and studied law at the Christian-Albrecht University in Kiel and at Indiana University’s Maurer School of Law.
Before being elected to the Bundestag, Hakverdi was a member of the Parliament of the Free and Hanseatic City of Hamburg from 2008 to 2013. During his time in Hamburg Parliament, he served on the Budget Committee, among others.
Hakverdi currently serves on the Bundestag’s Budget Committee[3] as well as the Committee on European Union Affairs.[4] He is a member of the German-American Parliamentary Friendship Group, a member of Atlantikbrücke, a member of the German-Israeli Parliamentary Friendship Group. Within his parliamentary group, he has been chairing a working group on relations with North America since 2018.[5]
Hakverdi was a John F. Kennedy Memorial Policy Fellow at Harvard University[6] and a Distinguished Visitor at the American Institute for Contemporary German Studies at Johns Hopkins University.[7]