Andrea Wechsler

Andrea Wechsler (born 19 June 1977) is a German professor and politician of the Christian Democratic Union. She was elected member of the European Parliament in 2024.

Early life and career
Wechsler joined the Young Union at the age of 15. She holds a Master of Arts in jurisprudence from the University of Oxford, a Master of Laws from Columbia Law School, a Master of Laws and a Ph.D. from the Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich, and a Chinese language diploma from the Peking University. In 2001 she interned at the coordination office of the World Intellectual Property Organization and was a clerk for European Court of Justice judge Ninon Colneric.

From 2002 to 2005 Wechsler was a management consultant for McKinsey & Company and Asia House. She was a research fellow and programme coordinator at the Max Planck Institute for Innovation and Competition from 2008 to 2011, and became an affiliated research fellow at the institute in 2011. She began working for the China-EU School of Law in 2008, and became a Max Weber Fellow at the European University Institute in 2011. Since 2013 she has been a professor in economic law at Pforzheim University.

Political career
In the 2021 Baden-Württemberg state election, Wechsler was a candidate for the Ludwigsburg constituency. For the 2024 European Parliament election, she was the lead candidate of the CDU in Baden-Württemberg.