Karen Melchior
Karen Melchior is a Danish lawyer and politician, formerly of the Social Liberal Party, who has served as a Member of the European Parliament in 2019–2024.
Political career
Career in local politics
Melchior was a member of the Copenhagen Municipal Council. In the council, she served on the Social Committee and the Health and Care Committee from the local elections of 2017 as a member of the Social Liberal Party.Melchior ran on the Danish Social Liberal Party's ticket in the European Parliament Election of 2014, where she was elected to the position of first alternate MEP for the party.
Member of the European Parliament, 2019–2024
Melchior was eventually elected to the European Parliament in 2019. She has since been serving on the Committee on Legal Affairs and on the Committee on Women's Rights and Gender Equality.In addition to her committee assignments, Melchior was part of the parliament's delegations to the EU-Armenia Parliamentary Partnership Committee, the EU-Azerbaijan Parliamentary Cooperation Committee and the EU-Georgia Parliamentary Association Committee, as well as to the Euronest Parliamentary Assembly. She was also a member of the European Parliament Intergroup on Anti-Corruption, the European Parliament Intergroup on LGBT Rights, the European Internet Forum, the Responsible Business Conduct Working Group, and the Spinelli Group.
Melchior resigned from the Social Liberal Party in August 2022 but remained a member of the European Parliament until the end of her mandate.