Jan-Christoph Oetjen is a liberal German MEP from Rotenburg, Lower-Saxony. In 2019 he became the Vice-Chair of the Transport and Tourism Committee after having served three terms in the state parliament of Lower-Saxony from 2004 until 2019. He has been a member of the German liberal party The Free Democrats (Freie Demokratische Partei) since 1995 and is an expert in transport policy, especially for aviation, road and railway transport