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Maike Finnern has been President of the German Education Union (GEW) since 2021. Maike is a teacher of German and mathematics and was most recently the Vice Principal of a secondary school in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. She was also a member of the main staff council at the Ministry of Education in North Rhine-Westphalia. From 2011 to 2019, Maike was the elected Vice-President of the GEW branch in the federal state of North Rhine-Westphalia; in May 2019 she became its President.