Barbara Steenbergen has been committed to tenant protection for more than 20 years. She started in 2001 as head of the presidential office of the German Tenants' Union Deutscher Mieterbund www.mieterbund.de in Berlin and as political coordinator for energy policy and international affairs. In 2007, the General Assembly of 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. https://www.iut.nu/eu/ Since 2020 she is Vice Chair of the tenants’ association of Bonn, Germany. https://www.mieterbund-bonn.de/pressemitteilungen/europa-beschliesst-mehr-mieterschutz.html She is responsible for the political relations and representation of the interests of the European tenant associations towards the EU Commission, the EU Parliament and the EU Council. She chaired the European Housing Forum, the organisation of federations working in the field of housing represented in Brussels. Since 2013 Barbara Steenbergen has been chair of the Stakeholder Forum of the European Responsible Housing Initiative and president of the jury of the European Responsible Housing Awards, which is awarded every three years. https://www.responsiblehousing.eu/ Since 2016 she has been a member of the civil society liaison group to the European Economic and Social Committee (EESC). In 2016 the EU Council appointed her as a member of the "EU Partnership for Affordable Housing" in the "Pact of Amsterdam". https://futurium.ec.europa.eu/en/urban-agenda/housing/pages/members This partnership consists of experts from cities, EU Member States, the European Commission, the European Investment Bank and the supply and demand side of the housing sector. It drafts catalogues of measures for the EU legislator. The main aim is to make more investment in affordable housing possible again. Barbara Steenbergen chairs the working group on housing policy there. Barbara is a German national and holds a master's degree in political science from the University of Bonn, Germany and a bachelor in public administration.