Katharina Beck | |
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| Member of theBundestag | |
| Assumed office 2021 | |
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| Born | (1982-04-13)13 April 1982 (age 43) |
| Nationality | German |
| Party | Alliance 90/The Greens |
Katharina Beck (born 1982) is a German politician (Alliance 90/The Greens). She was elected member of the GermanBundestag in the2021 German federal election.[1][2] She was alist candidate for the Green Party inHamburg and nominally represents theHamburg-Nord electoral district.[2][3]
Beck was born to a family of bakers inDüsseldorf in 1982 and grew up inDuisburg.[1] While her parents both attended university, she described her family as very down-to-earth.[1] She studied Latin American studies at theUniversity of Cologne and theNational University of Tucumán.[4]
After graduating, Beck was President ofoikos International from 2007 to 2009 and worked at theInstitute for Social Banking from 2009 to 2011.
Beck worked as a management consultant, specialising in sustainability, atAccenture before her election as MP.[1][4]
Beck joined theGreens at the age of 27 in 2009.[1]Katharina Fegebank, later second mayor of Hamburg, became her mentor in 2012.[1] She became chair of the Green's federal working party on economic and financial affairs and speaker of working party chairs.[5]
Beck has been politically active in Hamburg in the district association Hamburg-Nord since 2011. She was the spokeswoman for all 25 federal working groups of Bündnis 90/Die Grünen as well as the spokeswoman for the federal working group for economic afffairs and finance.[6][7][8] From 2017 to 2021 she was a member of the Economic Advisory Council of the Green Party's parliamentary group in the Bundestag.[9]
In 2021 Beck ran as a direct candidate for the district of Hamburg-Nord and as a top candidate for list number 1 of the Hamburg Greens and entered the Bundestag via the state list.[10][11]
One of Beck's main political goals is for the success of companies to be measured not only by profit, butsocial and environmental indicators.[1] She said that she aims to increase the Green Party's economic expertise and standing.[5]
She countsJacinda Ardern,Kamala Harris andAlexandria Ocasio-Cortez among her political role models.[1]
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