Elmar Brok is a former German Member of the European Parliament’s European People’s Party (EPP) group. Mr Brok is the longest serving MEP of the European Parliament, having worked for 39 years in Brussels. He recently stepped down at the 2019 European parliament elections.

Mr Brok has been a Global Ambassador of the G20 Health and Development Partnership since 2018. Mr Brok was a key negotiator in the European Parliament’s Brexit Steering Group and coordinated the Parliament’s deliberations, considerations and resolutions on the UK’s withdrawal from the EU. He was one of the key sherpas in the Brexit negotiations (2016). He was also a representative of the European Parliament at the European Council negotiations on the establishment of a genuine economic and monetary union.

Currently, Mr Brok provides regular briefings to policymakers and businesses around the globe about Brexit and the future of the European economy. He has served as the European Parliament Negotiator for the establishment of the European External Action Service and the European Stability Mechanism (ESM), and was the representative for the negotiation of the fiscal compact (2011/2012).

In his time in the European Parliament, he served as a longstanding Member of the Committee on Foreign Affairs and was the Chairman from 1999-2007 and 2012-2017.

On the national level, Mr Brok held many senior roles within the Christian Democratic Party and was the member of the European Committee of the German Bundestag.

Mr Brok has worked as a journalist prior to his political career and served as the Senior Vice-President, Media Development Bertelsmann AG (1991-2011).