Sebastian Schäfer (born 11 July 1979) is a German economist and politician of the Alliance 90/The Greens who has been serving as member of the Bundestag since 2021.
Schäfer was born 1979 in the West German town of Dettelbach. He studied philosophy at the University of Erfurt and Beloit College, and economics at the University of California, Berkeley.[1]
From 2018 to 2021, Schäfer worked at Baden-Württemberg's State Ministry of Finance.[2] He was a 2021/22 Marshall Memorial Fellow of the German Marshall Fund.
In the negotiations to form a coalition government under the leadership of Minister-President of Baden-Württemberg Winfried Kretschmann following the 2021 state elections, Schäfer was part of the working group on the state budget, led by Edith Sitzmann and Stefanie Bürkle.[3] [4]
Schäfer was elected to the Bundestag in 2021.[5] He has since been serving on the Budget Committee and the Finance Committee.[6] In 2022, he also joined the parliamentary body charged with overseeing a 100 billion euro special fund to strengthen Germany's armed forces.