Klaus-Heiner Lehne | |
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President of the European Court of Auditors | |
Assumed office 1 October 2016 | |
Preceded by | Vítor Manuel da Silva Caldeira |
Chair of the Conference of Committee Chairs | |
In office 8 September 2009 – 28 February 2014 | |
Preceded by | Gerardo Galeote Quecedo |
Succeeded by | Jerzy 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 | Düsseldorf, Germany | 28 October 1957
Political party | Christian Democratic Union |
Children | 2 |
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]