Lívia Járóka

  • Elected Member of the European Parliament in 2004 Group of the European People's Party and European Democrats, reelected in 2009 Group of the European People's Party (Christian Democrats);
  • Programme Director of the EPP-ED working group on Roma
 
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 to the EU-Romania Joint Parliamentary Committee; Substitute member
  • Delegation for relations with India
  • Delegation for relations with the Korean Peninsula (DKOR)
  • Anti-Racism and Diversity Parliamentary Intergroup; Vice-President 
Also member of
  • 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
Sept. 2000 -
University College of London, London, UK
Department of Anthropology, PhD Program in Social Anthropology
Wenner Gren Scholar in 2004
Sept. 2000 - Mar. 2001
Central-European University Budapest,
Department of Nationalism, CEU Research Support Program
Sept. 1999 – Sept. 2000
University College of London, London, UK
Department of Anthropology, MPhil 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 and May 1998
Sociological research among Roma students of Gandhi Gimnazium, Hungary
 
Awards and Accolades
  • Nominated as 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


Járóka is the first Roma woman to be elected to the European Parliament. On behalf of the EPP, she drafted the resolution on "The Situation of Roma in the EU" in 2005 and the resolution"A European strategy on the Roma". She also served as rapporteur for the European Parliament 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 2006. In the 2009-2014 parliamentary term she is appointed as rapporteur for the "EU strategy on Roma inclusion".
Member of the european parliament