Ramona Pop | |
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Ramona Pop (2017)
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Deputy Governing Mayor of Berlin | |
Assumed office 8 December 2016 Serving with Klaus Lederer |
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Governing Mayor | Michael Müller |
Preceded by | Dilek Kolat |
Senator for Economics, Energy and Business of Berlin | |
Assumed office 8 December 2016 |
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Governing Mayor | Michael Müller |
Preceded by | Cornelia Yzer |
Member of the Abgeordnetenhaus of Berlin for Mitte I |
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Assumed office 18 September 2011 |
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Preceded by | Markus Pauzenberger |
Member of the Abgeordnetenhaus of Berlin | |
In office 21 October 2001 – 18 September 2011 |
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Constituency | Alliance 90/The Greens List |
Personal details | |
Born |
Timișoara, Romania |
31 October 1977
Political party | Alliance '90/The Greens. |
Alma mater | Free University of Berlin |
Ramona Pop (born 31 October 1977 in Timișoara, Romania) is a German politician and member of the Alliance '90/The Greens party. Since 8 December 2016, she is a mayor of Berlin and Senator for Economy, Energy and Enterprises (Senatorin für Wirtschaft, Energie und Betriebe).
Pop grew up in Romania until her family, which had German origins, moved to Germany in 1988. In 1997 she completed high school. Pop studied Political Sciences in Münster and Free University Berlin and graduated there at Otto-Suhr-Institut.
Pop has been a member of the Green party since 1997. In the 2001 state elections, she was elected into the Abgeordnetenhaus of Berlin. In parliament, she first served as the Green Party’s parliamentary group on youth policies. From 2009, she led the parliamentary group alongside Volker Ratzmann. Pop succeeded Renate Künast as leading candidate after Künast had made mistakes in the election campaign for 2011 Berlin state elections.
As one of her state's representatives at the Bundesrat, Pop serves on the Committee on Economic Affairs.
Pop was a Green Party delegate to the Federal Convention for the purpose of electing the President of Germany in 2017.