Misbah Khan | |
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 Misbah Khan in 2016 | |
| Member of the Bundestag | |
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| Born | (1989-12-04)4 December 1989 (age 35) Karachi, Pakistan |
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| Alma mater | Johannes Gutenberg University |
Misbah Khan (born 4 December 1989 inKarachi,Pakistan) is a German politician of theAlliance 90/The Greens who has been serving as amember of theBundestag since 2021. She was state chair of theRhineland-Palatinate Green Party from November 2019 to March 2022.[1]
Khan was born 1989 in Karachi and has lived inMeckenheim since she was 4 years old. She graduated from the Kurfürst-Ruprecht-Gymnasium inNeustadt an der Weinstraße. Khan studied political science and British studies atJohannes Gutenberg University inMainz. She worked for the Rhineland-Palatinate State Agency for Civic Education, and since 2017 she has worked for the Rhineland-Palatinate State Office for Social Affairs, Youth and Supply in the Democracy Center in the department of religiousextremism.[2]
Khan has been a member of the Green Party since 2008,[1] and was a member of theGreen Youth from 2009 to 2017. Khan was a member of theDeidesheim Municipal Council from 2009 to 2014, and which she rejoined again in 2019. From 2009 to 2011 and again from 2014 to 2016, Khan was a member of the state executive committee of the Green Youth of Rhineland-Palatinate. In theBad Dürkheim district association, she was a member of the Green Party's district executive committee from 2010 to 2011 and again from 2012 to 2016. At the state level, she has been active as spokesperson for the state working group Peace & International Affairs since 2014.[3]
Khan ran in the2016 state election in Rhineland-Palatinate in 11th place on the state list and ran in the2017 German federal election as a direct candidate in theNeustadt – Speyer constituency.[4] At the state delegates' meeting in November 2019, Khan was elected state chair of the Rhineland-Palatinate Green Party.[citation needed]
In the2021 German federal election, Khan ran in 5th place on the state list of the Greens of Rhineland-Palatinate[5] and won a mandate in the Bundestag via the list position.[citation needed]
In parliament, Khan initially served as a full member of the Committee on Digital Affairs and the Committee on Home Affairs and a deputy member of theCommittee on Human Rights and Humanitarian Aid.[1] In this capacity, she was her parliamentary group'srapporteur on feminist digital policy,[6] data protection and privacy rights.[7]
Since the2025 German federal election, Khan has been serving as deputy chair of the Green Party's parliamentary group, under the leadership of co-chairsKatharina Dröge andBritta Haßelmann. In this capacity, she oversees the group’s legislative activities on health, research and families.[8] In the21st Bundestag, Khan is a member of thecommittee for education, family, senior citizens, women and youth.[9]
