Luisa Morgantini, Chief Observer (Italy)

Luisa Morgantini has been a Member of the European Parliament with the European United Left – Nordic Green Left Group since 1999. During her first term, she was Chairwoman of the Delegation for Relations with the Palestinian Legislative Council and member of the Committee on Development and Cooperation as well as of the Delegation for Relations with the countries of South Asia and the South Asia Association for Regional Cooperation.

She was the first woman elected to the leadership of the Italian mechanical engineering workers’ trade union from 1971 to 1998. She has also been a member of the FEM European trade union executive committee (1977-1988) and the spokesperson of the Italian Peace Association, and was active in the anti-apartheid movement.

Currently, she is the Vice President of the European Parliament. She is also member of the Subcommittee on Human Rights, the Delegation for Relations with the Palestinian Legislative Council and of the Euro-Mediterranean Parliamentary Assembly.

As Member of the European Parliament she is particularly committed to finding a just solution to the Middle East conflict For her work she has been nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize in 2005, as part of the project “1000 peace women for the Nobel Prize for Peace 2005”.