Klaus-Heiner Lehne

Klaus-Heiner Lehne
President of the European Court of Auditors
Assumed office
1 October 2016
Preceded byVítor Manuel da Silva Caldeira
Chair of the Conference of Committee Chairs
In office
8 September 2009 – 28 February 2014
Preceded byGerardo Galeote Quecedo
Succeeded byJerzy Buzek
Member of the European Parliament
for Germany
In office
19 July 1994 – 28 February 2014
Member of the Bundestag
In office
12 March 1992 – 10 November 1994
Personal details
Born (1957-10-28) 28 October 1957 (age 66)
Düsseldorf, Germany
Political partyChristian Democratic Union
Children2

Klaus-Heiner Lehne (born 28 October 1957 in Düsseldorf, Germany) is a German lawyer and politician who has been serving as member of the European Court of Auditors (ECA) since 2014. From 2016 until 2022, he was its 11th President[1][2]

Beforehand, he was a member of the European Parliament for the Christian Democratic Union (CDU) which is part of the European People's Party political group. In his previous national and European parliamentary career, spanning more than twenty years, he served among other things from 2009 to 2014 as political group coordinator and then Chair of the European Parliament’s Committee on Legal Affairs and concurrently as Chair of the Conference of Committee Chairs.[3]

  1. ^ "Curriculum Vitae of Klaus-Heiner Lehne" (PDF). Retrieved 6 April 2017.
  2. ^ "Klaus-Heiner Lehne re-elected President of the European Court of Auditors". www.eca.europa.eu. Retrieved 2019-11-08.
  3. ^ "Klaus-Heiner Lehne MEP". Retrieved 6 April 2017.

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