CV

• Born on 21 December 1965 in Bad Urach.

• 1981
  Joined Die Grünen (from 1993: Bündnis 90/Die Grünen)

• 1983
  Mittlere Reife (intermediate certificate of secondary education)

• 1987
  Completed training as a youth worker and started employment

• 1989
  Advanced technical college certificate

• 1989 to 1994
  Member of the State Executive of Die Grünen in Baden-Württemberg

• 1994
  Degree in social pedagogy at the Protestant University in Reutlingen.

• 1994 to 2002
  Member of the Bundestag

• 2003
  Fellow at the German Marshall Fund of the US in Washington DC and Brussels

• 2004 to 2009
  Member of the European Parliament

• 2008 to 2018
  Party Chair of Bündnis 90/Die Grünen

• since 2013
  Member of the Bundestag

• 2013 to 2021
  Chair of the Committee on Transport and Digital Infrastructure

• since December 2021
  Federal Minister of Food and Agriculture

• Cem Özdemir’s distinctions include the Theodor Heuss Medal (1996), the Speech of the Year 2018 award of the Department of General Rhetoric at the University of Tübingen, the Ignatz Bubis Prize (2019) and the Dolf Sternberger Award for Political Speech (2019).