Franziska Brantner has been Member of the Deutsche Bundestag for the constituency of Heidelberg since 2013. She is spokesperson for European Policy and parliamentary whip of the parliamentary group of Bündnis 90 / Die Grünen and member of the Committee on the Affairs of the European Union as well as deputy member of the Foreign Affairs Committee.

Franziska Brantner received a Double Degree from the School of International and Public Affairs of the Columbia University in New York as well as from the Sciences Po in Paris. In 2010 she received her PhD from the University of Mannheim for researching the United Nations’ ability to reform.