Dr Andreas Schwab was born in Rottweil in 1973, studied law at the University of Freiburg and at the Institut d'Etudes Politiques in Paris, and completed an LL.M. master's degree at the University of Wales. He is a lawyer and teaches at the Heinrich Heine University in Düsseldorf. He has been a Member of the European Parliament since 2004. He is Chairman of the Parliamentary Delegation for Northern cooperation and for relations with Switzerland and Norway and to the EU-Iceland Joint Parliamentary Committee and the European Economic Area (EEA)". As coordinator of the EPP group in the influential Internal Market Committee (IMCO) of the European Parliament, Dr Schwab successfully pushed important legislative projects through the Parliament, such as the Consumer Rights Directive (2011), the Network and Information Security Directive (2013), the Directive on Antitrust Damages Actions (2014) and the European Competition Network Directive (ECN +) (2018). He authored key European Parliament resolutions on Single Market Governance (2012), Supporting Consumer Rights in the Digital Single Market (2014) and the Digital Taxation INI Report (2021). During the current mandate, Dr Schwab was the rapporteur of the Digital Markets Act (DMA)(2022). Currently, Dr Schwab is Parliament's rapporteur for the Emergency Instrument for the Single Market (SMEI).