After elementary school in Salzburg-Herrnau, Fiona Fiedler attended the Bundesgymnasium Nonntal, where she graduated in 1995. She then completed the two-year Salzburg College for Tourism in Kleßheim. From 2013, she studied at the University College of Teacher Education Styria, graduating in 2016 with a Bachelor of Education (BEd). She also began training as a children's choir director at the Johann Joseph Fux Conservatory in Graz.[1][2][3] From 2003 to 2009, she worked in the catering industry, and from 2017 she was an elementary school teacher in Styria.[1] Fiedler has lived in Graz since 1998, and is married and the mother of two sons.[3]
Politics
Since 2019, she has been a member of NEOS,[3] for which she ran as the top candidate in the Styrian state constituency in the 2019 National Council election.[4] On October 23, 2019, she was sworn in as a member of the Austrian National Council at the beginning of the 27th legislative period.[1] In the NEOS parliamentary group, she acts as the area spokesperson for people with disabilities and animal protection.[5]
On January 20, 2022, she voted against the National Council's bill to introduce mandatory COVID-19 vaccination in Austria, but it was approved by a majority of National Council members.[6]
