Oliver Schenk

Oliver Schenk has been a Member of the European Parliament for Germany since July 2024. He belongs to the CDU and sits with the European People’s Party (EPP) group. He is a member of the Committee on the Environment, Climate and Food Safety and the Committee on Public Health. He is also a substitute member of the Committee on Industry, Research and Energy (ITRE). From 2017 to 2024 he headed the Saxon State Chancellery under Minister-President Michael Kretschmer. Before that, from 2014 to 2017, he was Director-General for health policy at Germany’s Federal Ministry of Health.