| Simone Peter | |
| Office1: | Leader of Alliance 90/The Greens |
| Term Start1: | October 2013 |
| Alongside1: | Cem Özdemir |
| Term End1: | January 2018 |
| Predecessor1: | Claudia Roth |
| Successor1: | Annalena Baerbock |
| Office2: | Member of the Saarland State parliament |
| Term Start2: | March 2012 |
| Term End2: | November 2013 |
| Birth Date: | 3 December 1965 |
| Birth Place: | Quierschied, West Germany |
| Alma Mater: | University of Saarland |
| Occupation: | Politician |
| Spouse: | Andreas Heiser |
| Party: | Alliance '90/The Greens |
| Children: | 1 |
Simone Peter (born 3 December 1965) is a German Alliance 90/The Greens politician. Between 2013 and 2018, she co-chaired the party along with Cem Özdemir.
Between 2009 and 2012, she was Saarland's State Minister for the Environment, Energy and Transport in the cabinet of former Minister-President Peter Müller (CDU).[1]
Peter served as a Green Party delegate to the Federal Convention for the purpose of electing the President of Germany in 2017. In the unsuccessful negotiations to form a coalition government with the Christian Democrats – both the Christian Democratic Union (CDU) and the Christian Social Union in Bavaria (CSU) – and the Free Democratic Party (FDP) following the 2017 national elections, Peter was part of the 14-member delegation of the Green Party.
Since February 2018, Peter has been serving as chairwoman of the German Renewable Energy Federation (BEE).[2] [3]
Peter is the daughter of SPD politician Brunhilde Peter, who served as State minister and vice Minister-President under Oskar Lafontaine. Raised in Dillingen, Peter studied microbiology at Universität des Saarlandes in Saarbrücken and received a PhD.
After being editor-in-chief of Eurosolar, she was founding director of a state-supported communications agency promoting Renewable energies. Today, she is married and mother of one child and lives in Saarbrücken.[4]