Lívia Járóka
Elected Member of the European Parliament in 2004 in the Group of the European People's Party and European Democrats; re-elected in 2009 as member of the Group of the European People's Party (Christian Democrats).
Járóka is the first Roma woman to be elected as a Member of the European Parliament. On behalf of the European People's Party (EPP), she drafted the resolution on "The Situation of Roma in the EU"and the resolution "A European strategy on the Roma". She also served as rapporteur for the European Parliament's resolution on "The Situation of Roma Women in the EU" and initiated the EPP report "Educational and Employment Situation of the Roma in the European Union". In 2011 she was the rapporteur for the EP's report on the "EU strategy on Roma inclusion" which served as a basis for the "EU Framework on National Roma Inclusion Strategies" adopted during the Hungarian Presidency of the EU in June 2011.
Chair of
Working Group of the European People's Party on Roma Inclusion
Vice-Chair of
Committee on Women's Rights and Gender Equality
Member of
Committee on Civil Liberties, Justice and Home Affairs; Member
Committee on Employment and Social Affairs; Substitute member
Committee on Human Rights; Substitute member
Delegation for relations with India
Delegation for relations with the Korean Peninsula (DKOR)
Anti-Racism and Diversity Parliamentary Intergroup; Vice-President
Other memberships
Young Global Leaders – Forum of Young Global Leaders and the World Economic Forum
Roma Education Fund – Board Member
Member of High Level Group of Roma Diplomacy Program
European Roma Information Office – Board Member
Prior Board Member of Open Society Institute, Roma Memorial University Scholarship Program
Education
2004-University College of London, London, UK, Department of Anthropology, PhD Program in Social Anthropology, Wenner Gren Scholar
2000 - March 2001 - Central-European University Budapest, Department of Nationalism, CEU Research Support Program
Sept. 1999 – Sept. 2000- University College of London, UK Department of Anthropology, M.Phil. Program in Theory and Methods of Social Anthropology, Chevening scholar
Sept. 1998 - Sept. 1999- Lancaster University, UK affiliated with the Central-European University, Warsaw, Sociology Department, MA in Society and Politics
Sept. 1995 - Sept. 1998 - Berzsenyi Dániel College, Szombathely, Hungary
Research activities
Sept. 2000 – April 2002- Ethnographic field research on assimilation tendencies of Roma in Hungary
May 2001– May 1998- Sociological research among Roma students of Gandhi Gimnazium, Hungary
Awards and Accolades
Elected Young Global Leader in 2006 by the Forum of Young Global Leaders and the World Economic Forum
2006 Member of the European Parliament of the Year (MEP) award in the category of Justice and Fundamental Rights
Awarded the Romanian Foreign Ministry's Excellency Award for the Social Integration of Minorities in 2010
Awarded the Presidential Order of Merit of Hungary for her outstanding work during the Hungarian Presidency of the EU in 2011
Won the St. Adalbert Award of the Hungarian Association of Christian Intellectuals in 2011