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Mona Neubaur
Deputy Minister-President of
North Rhine-Westphalia
Assumed office
29 June 2022
Preceded byJoachim Stamp
Minister for Economics, Industry, Climate Protection and Energy of North Rhine-Westphalia
Assumed office
29 June 2022
Preceded byAndreas Pinkwart
Member of the Landtag of North Rhine-Westphalia
for Düsseldorf I
Assumed office
1 June 2022
Personal details
Born (1977-07-01) 1 July 1977 (age 46)
Pöttmes, Bavaria, West Germany (now Germany)
Political partyGreens (1999–)
Alma materUniversity of Düsseldorf

Mona Neubaur (born 1 July 1977) is a German politician from Alliance 90/The Greens who has been serving as Deputy Minister-President of North Rhine-Westphalia and also as State Minister for Economics, Industry, Climate Protection and Energy in the second cabinet of Minister-President Hendrik Wüst since 29 June 2022. She was previously the leader of her party in North Rhine-Westphalia.[1]

Early life and career[edit]

Born to a nurse,[2] Neubaur grew up in Pöttmes. In 1997 she moved to Düsseldorf to study education, sociology and psychology.[3]

From 2007 to 2014, Neubaur worked for the Heinrich Böll Foundation in Düsseldorf.[4]

Political career[edit]

Neubau joined the Green Party in 1999.[5] From 2007 to 2015, she served as chairwoman of the Green Party in Düsseldorf.[6]

From 2014 to 2022, Neubaur served as co-chair of the Green Party in North Rhine-Westphalia, alongside Sven Lehmann (2014–2018) and Felix Banaszak (2018–2022).[7]

Neubaur was nominated by her party as delegate to the Federal Convention for the purpose of electing the President of Germany in 2022.[8]

Other activities[edit]

Corporate boards[edit]

  • NRW.BANK, Ex-Officio member of the supervisory board (since 2022)[9]

Non-profit organizations[edit]

Political positions[edit]

Ahead of the 2022 presidential election, Neubaur publicly endorsed incumbent Frank-Walter Steinmeier of the Social Democrats.[11]

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