15 Facts About Kati Piri

Kati Piri was born on 8 April 1979 and is a Hungarian-born Dutch politician serving as a member of the House of Representatives since 2021.

Kati Piri attended the Christelijk Gymnasium in Utrecht between 1991 and 1997.

Kati Piri studied the first years of pedagogy at the University of Groningen between 1998 and 2000 and then switched to international relations, graduating in 2007.

Kati Piri worked as a political advisor to the Dutch Labour Party delegation in the European Parliament between 2006 and 2008.

In 2011 Kati Piri worked some months at the Wiardi Beckman Stichting, a think tank linked to the Labour Party.

In 2014 Kati Piri stood as a candidate for the European Parliament.

Kati Piri occupied the third place on the Labour Party list for the European Parliament elections of 2014, after Paul Tang and Agnes Jongerius.

Kati Piri cited upholding democratic standards and the respect for human rights as internal motivations to take up the candidacy.

Kati Piri was elected to the European Parliament in May 2014.

Kati Piri is part of the European Parliament Intergroup on LGBT Rights.

Kati Piri was a member of the Democracy Support and Election Coordination Group, which oversees the Parliament's election observation missions.

Kati Piri was part of the parliament's mission to observe Ukraine's 2014 parliamentary elections, led by Andrej Plenkovic.

Since the 2021 elections, Kati Piri has been a member House of Representatives.

In July 2016, after the 2016 Turkish coup d'etat attempt and subsequent purges, Kati Piri called for firm language by the EU towards Turkey.

Kati Piri stated that the countries already made significant reforms and it drove them towards cooperation with China, Turkey and Russia.