Member of the European Parliament (EPP Group, Germany), first Vice-Chairman of the Economic and Monetary Affairs Committee of the European Parliament

Markus Ferber is a member of the Christian Social Union in Bavaria and of the Bureau of the European People's Party, Ferber is currently a Vice-Chair of the European Parliament's Committee on Economic and Monetary Affairs on which he has been serving since 2009. He is also a full member of the Special Committee on Tax Rulings and Other Measures Similar in Nature or Effect and a substitute member of the Committee on Transport and Tourism. In addition, he serves as a member of the European Parliament's Sky and Space Intergroup (SSI).

In his capacity as member of the Committee on Economic and Monetary Affairs, Ferber led the negotiations on an update of securities trading rules, known as Markets in Financial Instruments Directive (MiFID), for the European Parliament from 2012 to 2013.

Previously, Ferber was a member of the Committee on Budgets between 1999 and 2009 as well as of the Committee on Budgetary Control between 2004 and 2009. Prior to that, he served on the Committee on Research, Technological Development and Energy between 1994 and 1997. His political career dates back to 1983.

He studied electrical engineering at the Technical University Munich, Germany.