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Simone Peter
Leader ofAlliance 90/The Greens
In office October 2013 – January 2018 Serving with Cem Özdemir
Preceded by	Claudia Roth
Succeeded by	Annalena Baerbock
Member of theSaarland State parliament
In office March 2012 – November 2013
Personal details
Born	(1965-12-03)3 December 1965 (age 59) Quierschied, West Germany
Political party	Alliance '90/The Greens
Spouse	Andreas Heiser
Children	1
Alma mater	University of Saarland
Occupation	Politician

Simone Peter (born 3 December 1965) is a GermanAlliance 90/The Greens politician. Between 2013 and 2018, she co-chaired the party along withCem Özdemir.

Between 2009 and 2012, she was Saarland's State Minister for the Environment, Energy and Transport in the cabinet of former Minister-PresidentPeter Müller (CDU).^[1]

Peter served as a Green Party delegate to theFederal Convention for the purpose of electing thePresident of Germany in2017. In the unsuccessful negotiations to form acoalition government with the Christian Democrats – both theChristian Democratic Union (CDU) and theChristian Social Union in Bavaria (CSU) – and theFree Democratic Party (FDP) following the2017 national elections, Peter was part of the 14-member delegation of theGreen Party.

Since February 2018, Peter has been serving as chairwoman of the German Renewable Energy Federation (BEE).^[2][3]

• ZDF, Member of the Television Board
• Arte, Member of the Programme Advisory Board
• German Federation for the Environment and Nature Conservation (BUND)
• Nature and Biodiversity Conservation Union (NABU), Member
• German United Services Trade Union (ver.di), Member

Peter is the daughter ofSPD politicianBrunhilde Peter, who served as State minister and viceMinister-President underOskar Lafontaine. Raised inDillingen, Peter studiedmicrobiology atUniversität des Saarlandes inSaarbrücken and received a PhD.

After being editor-in-chief ofEurosolar, she was founding director of a state-supported communications agency promotingRenewable energies. Today, she is married and mother of one child and lives in Saarbrücken.^[4]

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