Robert Habeck

Dr. Robert Habeck served as Vice Chancellor and Federal Minister for Economic Affairs and Climate Action from 2021 to 2025, and as a Member of the Bundestag. He currently works as a Professor of Practice at Copenhagen Business School and as a writer.

From 2018 to 2022, he was Party Chairman of Alliance 90/The Greens. From 2017 to 2018, he served as Deputy Minister-President and Minister for Energy Transition, Agriculture, Environment, Nature Conservation and Digitalization of the State of Schleswig-Holstein, and from 2012 to 2017 as Deputy Minister-President and Minister for Energy Transition, Agriculture, Environment and Rural Areas of the State of Schleswig-Holstein. He was Group Chairman in the State Parliament of Schleswig-Holstein from 2009 to 2012 and Group Chairman in the District Council of Schleswig-Flensburg from 2008 to 2009. He served as State Chairman of Alliance 90/The Greens in Schleswig-Holstein from 2004 to 2009 and as District Chairman of Alliance 90/The Greens in Schleswig-Flensburg from 2002 to 2004.

A member of Alliance 90/The Greens, he also worked as a freelance writer. He received his doctorate from the University of Hamburg in 2000. From 1991 to 1996, he studied German Studies, Philosophy, and Philology in Freiburg im Breisgau; Humanities in Roskilde, Denmark; and Literature and Philosophy in Hamburg, receiving a Master’s degree.

Dr. Robert Habeck was born on September 2, 1969, in Lübeck. He is married and has four children.