Omid Nouripour

Omid Nouripour
Nouripour in 2020
Leader of Alliance 90/The Greens
Assumed office
29 January 2022
Serving with Ricarda Lang
Deputy
  • Pegah Edalatian
  • Heiko Knopf
  • Marc Urbatsch
Preceded byRobert Habeck
Member of the Bundestag
for Frankfurt am Main II
Assumed office
26 October 2021
Preceded byBettina Wiesmann
In office
1 September 2006 – 26 October 2021
Preceded byJoschka Fischer
Succeeded bymulti-member district
ConstituencyGreens List
Personal details
Born (1975-06-18) 18 June 1975 (age 49)
Tehran, Imperial State of Iran
Citizenship
  • Germany
  • Iran
Political partyAlliance 90/The Greens
Alma materUniversity of Mainz (no degree)

Omid Nouripour (German pronunciation: [ˈoːmɪt ˈnuːʁipuːɐ̯]; Persian: امید نوری‌پور [oˈmiːd nuːɾiːˈpuːɾ]; born 18 June 1975) is a German-Iranian politician of the Alliance '90/The Greens who has been serving as a member of the Bundestag since 2006, representing the state of Hesse. Since 2022, he has also been serving as co-leader of Alliance 90/The Greens, alongside Ricarda Lang.[1]

Earlier in his career, Nouripour was his parliamentary group's spokesman on foreign affairs, and is a member of the Committee on Foreign Affairs and the Finance Committee. He is of Iranian background and moved to Germany as a child.