Beate Meinl-Reisinger
Beate Meinl-Reisinger (born 25 April 1978 in Vienna, Austria) is an Austrian politician. Since 23 June 2018 she has been party leader of NEOS – The New Austria and Liberal Forum. From 2013 to 2015 Meinl-Reisinger was a Member of the Austrian National Council and from 2015 to 2018 a Member of the Viennese Parliament and a member of the Viennese Municipal Council. She was also a member of the NEOS Landtag and Municipal Council in the Vienna City Hall. Beate Meinl-Reisinger has been a member of the National Council again since October 2018.

Early life and Education
Beate Reisinger studied law at the University of Vienna and received her Master's degree in European Studies at the Danube University in Krems. At the beginning of her career, she completed the "Trainee Program for EU Academics of the Austrian Federal Economic Chamber". In this context, she also worked for the European Commission and as an assistant to Othmar Karas in the European Parliament.

After the trainee programme, she worked as deputy managing director at "Frau in der Wirtschaft", a department of the Austrian Federal Economic Chamber. Further positions included the Federal Ministry of Economics and Labour and then the Federal Ministry of Economics, Family and Youth. She subsequently worked as a consultant for women's, family and integration policy in the cabinet of State Secretary Christine Marek (ÖVP). In 2009 she joined the Austrian People's Party (ÖVP) Vienna as a political advisor.

Politics
After the birth of her second daughter in 2012, she turned her back on the ÖVP and became involved with NEOS, to whose deputy chairwoman she was elected. With NEOS she made the leap to the National Council in the National Council elections in 2013 on Listplatz 3 . [3] [4] She served as Chair of the Culture Committee and was a member of the Judiciary Committee, the Consumer Protection Committee and the Family Committee.

In February 2015, She was confirmed as the top candidate for the Landtag and municipal elections in Vienna on October 11, 2015. [6] In the election itself  NEOS led by Meinl-Reisinger, received 6.16% of votes in the Vienna City Council and Parliament. Beate Meinl-Reisinger subsequently led the five-member club in the Vienna City Hall as a member of the Landtag and a member of the municipal council.

At a party congress on June 23, 2018, Beate Meinl-Reisinger was elected with 94.8 percent of the delegate votes to succeed Matthias Strolz as party leader of NEOS.  She took over in the National Council meeting on 18 October 2018, the National Council mandate Strolz and also leads the NEOS delegation in Parliament.

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