Eva Maydell is a third-term Member of the European Parliament from the European People’s Party. She serves on the Industry and Economic Affairs Committees and is Deputy Spokesperson on industry policy for her political group. She is also Vice President of the Parliament’s delegation for relations with the United States.
She was a lead negotiator on the EU Chips Act and Artificial Intelligence Act, with a focus on innovation, technology, and global democratic cooperation.
Maydell is a World Economic Forum Young Global Leader, sits on the WEF Digital Europe Board, and co-founded the Council on the Future with the Munich Security Conference.
Her work has been recognized with two MEP of the Year Awards, Forbes 30 Under 30, FT’s New Europe 100, and multiple POLITICO rankings of influential European leaders.
She is a Board Member for the World Economic Forum’s Digital Europe program and a member of the WEF Global Future Council of Europe. She is also the co-founder of the Council on the Future partnered with the Munich Security Conference.
Eva has been awarded the European Parliament's MEP of the Year Award twice. She has also been included in FT's own 'New Europe 100' ranking of CEE's emerging change-makers, European Forbes' 30 Under 30 list and others. She has also been featured in POLITICO’s 40 most influential MEPs and “POLITICO 28” list of people who shape Europe and POLITICO’s 2018 Women who shape Brussels.