Erika Mann (politician)

Erika Mann (born 2 November 1950 in Leipzig, Germany) is a senior policy advisor at Covington based in Brussels.^[1]

She is a former Member of the European Parliament with the Social Democratic Party of Germany from 1994 to 2009. She was a member of the Party of European Socialists and sat on the Committee on International Trade of the European Parliament. She was a substitute for the Committee on Budgetary Control and the Committee on Industry, Research and Energy.^{[citation needed]}

As a member of the European Parliament, she concentrated on trade policy, transatlantic relations, financial services, pharmaceuticals, digital economy, telecommunications and Internet-related legislation and research policy. She was the rapporteur for the eCommerce Directive.^{[citation needed]}

After leaving public office, Mann was the executive vice president of the Computer & Communications Industry Association from 2009 until October 2011. She then led Facebook's office in Brussels, Belgium from late 2011 until December 2015.^{[citation needed]}

She currently serves on the GNSO Council of ICANN.^[2]