Godelieve Quisthoudt-Rowohl

Godelieve Quisthoudt-Rowohl (born 18 June 1947, Etterbeek, Belgium) is a German politician and a Member of the European Parliament for Lower Saxony (since 1989) and a member of the Christian Democratic Union (CDU) and the European People's Party (EPP).

She focuses on international trade and foreign affairs. She committed herself to helping companies by cutting back EU regulations and by fighting against discriminating economic rules from non-EU-countries. She is an expert in research funding and particularly committed to children's rights and democratization.

Education and career

Quisthoudt-Rowohl studied Chamistry at University of Leuven. After graduating, she did research in chemistry from 1972 to 1973 as a fellow at the Max Planck Institute for Biophysical Chemistry in Göttingen from 1972 to 1973 and afterwards received her PhD ScD in physical chemistry.

From 1974 to 1978 she continued researching at the Hannover Medical School. From 1979 to 1989 she served as Akademische Rätin of the University of Hildesheim. There she worked as an academic employee at the institute for applied glottology, from 1979-1988, and from 1988 to 1989 she was an academic council at the institute for applied glottology. Since 2002, she has been teaching at its Institute of Social Sciences, where on 6 March 2009, she became a professor at the department of education and social sciences. She gave inter alia guest lectures at the University of Kaliningrad, at the European Business School and at Harvard University.