CV

• Born on 19 September 1968 in Altenrheine (now Rheine)

• 1987
  Abitur (university entrance qualification)

• 1987/1988
  Voluntary social year at the St. Elisabeth children's home in Hamburg

• 1988 to 1999
  Studied economics and political science at the Free University of Berlin, degree in economics

• 1997 to 1999
  Staff member under Green MEP Frieder Otto Wolf

• 2004/2005
  Lecturer in economics at Berlin School of Economics and Law

• from 1995
  Member of Bündnis 90/Die Grünen

• 1997 to 1999
  Member of the Berlin State Executive

• 1999 to 2009
  Member of the Berlin House of Representatives and during this period also spokesperson for economic policy, science policy, budget policy and European policy

• 1999 to 2000 / 2002 to 2004
  Member of the Parliamentary Party Executive

• from 2009
  Member of the Bundestag and since then member of the Finance Committee, including as chairperson up until the end of the 2019 legislative period

• 2017 to 2021
  Spokesperson for financial policy of the Bündnis 90/Die Grünen parliamentary party in the Bundestag

• December 2021 to April 2022
  Deputy chair of the Bündnis 90/Die Grünen parliamentary party in the Bundestag
  
  since April 2022
  Federal Minister of Family Affairs, Senior Citizens, Women and Youth