Esther de Lange is a Dutch politician for the Christian Democratic Appeal. Since April 2007 she has been a MEP. De Lange was elected as party leader for the CDA in the European Parliament during a party conference on 2 November 2013 in Leeuwarden. After the European elections, 2014 Esther de Lange was elected one of the vice presidents of the EPP Group in the European Parliament, responsible for the relations with national parliaments. She is a member of the committee for Economic and Monetary Affairs and of the committee for Industry, Research and Energy. De Lange is also member of the delegations for the EU-relations with the US and with Russia. Previously she was a member of the committee for Environment, Public Health and Food Safety committee; the commission on Agriculture and Development and the commission that focuses on Budgetary Control. Besides that, De Lange was a member of the Delegation for relations with India and she is also Vice-Chair of the Delegation for the relations with Iraq. In her parliamentary work, De Lange mostly focused on agriculture, food safety and sustainability. 

February 19th, 1975 in Spaubeek (Age 49)