Dr Andreas Schwab has been a member of the European Parliament since 2004. He studied law at the University of Freiburg and the Institut d’Etudes Politiques in Paris, before obtaining an LLM from the University of Wales in 2000. He worked as a consultant for the European Convention in the Department of European Affairs of the Baden-Württemberg State Ministry, while obtaining a doctorate in law in 2002 and completing his second state law exam in 2003. Schwab is Chair of the Committee on Budgetary Control, the EPP Group Coordinator in the Committee on the Internal Market and Consumer Protection, a substitute Member of the Committee on Economic and Monetary Affairs, a member of the Bureau of the EPP Group, as well as Chairman of CDU Südbaden. He has been steering key legislation on competition policy, consumer rights, services, and cybersecurity.