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After many years as a politician, including as federal minister from 2021 to 2025 and state minister from 2012 to 2018, Robert Habeck now works as a senior analyst at DIIS in Denmark. His main focus is on geopolitics, the security policy consequences of global warming - especially in the Arctic - and European security and defense policy.

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Dr. Robert Habeck has been German Vice Chancellor and Federal Minister for Economic Affairs and Climate Protection from December 8, 2021-january 2025

Member of the German Bundestag from 2021-2025

2018 – 2022 Party Chairman of Alliance 90, The Greens, Germany

2017 – 2018 Deputy Minister-President and Minister for Energy Transition, Agriculture, Environment, Nature Conservation and Digitalization of the State of Schleswig-Holstein

2012 – 2017 Deputy Minister-President and Minister for Energy Transition, Agriculture, Environment and Rural Areas of the State of Schleswig-Holstein

2009 – 2012 Group Chairman in the State Parliament of Schleswig-Holstein

2008 – 2009 Group Chairman in the District Council of Schleswig-Flensburg

2004 – 2009 State Chairman of Alliance 90/The Greens in Schleswig-Holstein

2002 – 2004 District Chairman of Alliance 90/The Greens in Schleswig-Flensburg Member of Alliance 90/The Greens

 2000 Doctorate from the University of Hamburg

1996 Masters degree from the University of Hamburg

1991 to 1996 Studied in Freiburg im Breisgau (German Studies, Philosophy, and Philology), Roskilde University, Denmark (Humanities), and Hamburg University (Literature and Philosophy)