Andreas Schieder is a member of the European Parliament and the Head of the Austrian SPÖ-EU-Delegation. Before that, he served as parliamentary leader of the Social Democratic Party in the Austrian Parliament. He was also state secretary in the Ministry of Finance from 2008 to 2013. Andreas Schieder holds a master’s degree in economics from the University of Vienna.

In the European Parliament, Andreas Schieder is Member of the Conference of Delegation Chairs, a full member on the Foreign Affairs Committee and the Committee on Transport and Tourism, a member of the Joint Parliamentary Committee on Norway and Iceland and on the European Economic Area (EEA) and is on the Delegation for relations with Central Asia. Additionally, his engagement for a progressive way forward brought him to being Co-Chair of the Progressive Forum and Chair of the FEPS Next Left Program.