Ramona Pop | |
Office: | Deputy Governing Mayor of Berlin |
Term Start: | 8 December 2016 |
Term End: | 20 December 2021 |
Predecessor: | Dilek Kalayci |
Successor: | Bettina Jarasch |
Alongside: | Klaus Lederer |
1Namedata: | Michael Müller |
Office1: | Senator for Economics, Energy and Business of Berlin |
Term Start1: | 8 December 2016 |
Term End1: | 20 December 2021 |
Predecessor1: | Cornelia Yzer |
Successor1: | Stephan Schwarz |
1Namedata1: | Michael Müller |
Office2: | Member of the Abgeordnetenhaus of Berlin |
Term Start2: | 21 October 2011 |
Term End2: | 4 November 2021 |
Birth Date: | 1977 10, df=y |
Birth Place: | Timișoara, Romania |
Party: | Alliance 90/The Greens |
Alma Mater: | Free University of Berlin |
Ramona Pop (born 31 October 1977) is a Romanian-born German politician of the Alliance '90/The Greens party who has been serving as chairwoman of the Federation of German Consumer Organisations (VZBV) since 2022.[1] She previously served as a deputy mayor of Berlin and Senator for Economy, Energy, and Enterprises (Senatorin für Wirtschaft, Energie und Betriebe) from 2016 until 2021.[2]
Pop was born in Timișoara, and grew up in Romania until her family, of mixed Romanian and Romanian German origin, moved to Germany in 1988.[3] In 1997 she completed high school. Pop studied political science in Münster and later at the Free University Berlin, graduating from its Otto-Suhr-Institut.
Pop has been a member of the Green party since 1997. In the 2001 state elections, she was elected into the Abgeordnetenhaus of Berlin.[4] In parliament, she first served as the Green Party’s parliamentary group on youth policies. From 2009, she led the parliamentary group alongside Volker Ratzmann. Pop succeeded Renate Künast as leading candidate after Künast had made mistakes in the election campaign for 2011 Berlin state elections.[5]
As one of her state's representatives at the Bundesrat, Pop served on the Committee on Economic Affairs.
Pop was a Green Party delegate to the Federal Convention for the purpose of electing the President of Germany in 2017.[6]