Barbara Steenbergen
Barbara Steenbergen has been committed to tenant protection for more than 20 years. In 2001 she was appointed as head of the presidential office of the German Tenants’ Union Deutscher Mieterbund www.mieterbund.de in Berlin and as political coordinator for housing and energy policy and international affairs. In 2007, the International Union of Tenants (IUT) elected her as head of the newly founded IUT Liaison Office to the European Union in Brussels, which she established in 2008.
Since 2013 Barbara Steenbergen has been a member of the Executive Board of the IUT. She is responsible for the political relations, advocacy and representation of the interests of the European tenant associations towards the EU Commission, the EU Parliament, EU Council, the Committee of the Regions, the European Economic and Social Committee and other relevant bodies at European level.