Jens Geier, born in 1961 in Frankfurt am Main. He is married and has one grown son.
Grew up in the Ruhr area, went to school in Essen and studied history, literature and politics at the Ruhr University in Bochum after completing community service.
Subsequently, from 1989 onwards, he supported an SPD member of the European Parliament as a research assistant in the areas of budget and European research and technology policy.
Jens Geier worked for the SPD party executive between 1992-1999, where he was mainly active in the area of the SPD presidium, including in the office of the party chairman, as an adviser to a deputy party chairman and as secretary of the European Commission. In addition, from 1999-2001 he gained experience in public relations at the SPD state executive committee in North Rhine-Westphalia. From 2001 to 2006 he worked as a project manager and press officer at Projekt Ruhr GmbH.
From 2006, Jens initially worked at innova AG, then at Deloitte in real estate projects in the public sector.
He is also involved in IG Metall, the Arbeiterwohlfahrt, the association for child and youth work in social hot spots
Jens Geier has represented the cities of Duisburg, Essen, Mülheim and Oberhausen as well as the districts of Kleve, Viersen and Wesel in the European Parliament since July 14, 2009 . Jens Geier is deputy chairman of the budget committee and deputy member of the industry, research and energy committee.
Since the beginning of 2017, Jens Geier has been chairman of the EuropaSPD, i.e. the 27 SPD members in the European Parliament and in this function a permanent guest on the board and the presidium of the SPD.