page_title: Isabelle Durant
section_title: Member of the European Parliament, 2009–2014
hierarchical_section_title: Isabelle Durant / Political career / Member of the European Parliament, 2009–2014
caption_attribution_description: English: Pamela Coke-Hamilton, Mia Mottley and Isabelle Durant.jpg At the the 16th Raúl Prebisch Lecture by The Honorable Mia Amor Mottley, Prime Minister of Barbados, held in Geneva, Switzerland, on 10 September. Photo: Timothy Sullivan (UNCTAD) More: unctad.org/en/Pages/MeetingDetails.aspx?meetingid=2233
context_page_description: Isabelle A.J. Durant is a Belgian politician, member of the Ecolo party. She has been serving as Deputy Secretary-General of the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development since 2017.
context_section_description: Durant became a Member of the European Parliament in the 2009 European elections. She served as Vice President of the European Parliament under the leadership of president Martin Schulz between 2009 and 2014. In addition, she was a member of the Committee on Budgets, the delegation for relations with Iran and the delegation to the ACP–EU Joint Parliamentary Assembly. In 2012, she also served on a cross-party working group which presented new rules for what gifts MEPs might accept.
  On 15 September 2010 Durant supported the new initiative Spinelli Group in the European Parliament, which was founded to reinvigorate the strive for federalisation of the European Union (EU). Other prominent supporters include Jacques Delors, Daniel Cohn-Bendit, Guy Verhofstadt, Andrew Duff and Elmar Brok.
  In December 2013, Durant led a European Parliament delegation – including Tarja Cronberg, Cornelia Ernst Marietje Schaake and Josef Weidenholzer – visiting Tehran where members met parliament speaker Ali Larijani and his brother, Mohammad Javad Larijani, head of the judiciary's high council on human rights; human rights lawyer Nasrin Sotoudeh; and filmmaker Jafar Panahi.
caption: Pamela Coke-Hamilton, Prime Minister Mia Mottley and Durant.
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