Key facts
- Preceded by
- Rebecca Harms
- Succeeded by
- Terry Reintke
- Constituency
- Germany
- Born
- Franziska Maria Keller , ( 1981-11-22 ) 22 November 1981 (age 44) , Guben , East Germany
- Party
- Alliance 90/The Greens
- Spouse
- Markus Drake
- Alma mater
- Free University of Berlin
- Website
- ska-keller .de /en
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- Franziska
- Family name
- Keller
- Gender
- female
- Citizenship
- German Democratic Republic
- Place of birth
- Guben
- Occupation
- environmentalist
- Position held
- Member of the European Parliament
- Educated at
- Freie Universität Berlin
- Political party
- Alliance '90/The Greens
- Languages spoken
- German
- Native language
- German
- Official website
- www.skakeller.de
- Image
- 2019-07-08-Ska Keller in 2019-hart aber fair-6482.jpg
- Work location
- Brussels
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- Ska Keller
- date of birth
- 1981-11-22
- name in native language
- Ska Keller
- nickname
- Ska Keller
- social media followers
- 59573
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- Ska Keller
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Encyclopedic overview
Franziska Maria "Ska" Keller ( German: [ˈskaː ˈkɛlɐ]; born 22 November 1981) is a German politician and was member of the European Parliament for the Germany constituency from 2009 to 2024. She is a member of the Alliance 90/The Greens, part of the European Green Party.
From 2016 to 2022, Keller served as co-president of the Greens/EFA group in the European Parliament. She has been a member of the Committee on Fisheries (PECH) as well as the Committee on the Environment, Public Health and Food Safety (ENVI). She was the European Greens' frontrunner during the European elections 2014 together with José Bové and has been elected to lead them again for the European elections 2019, together with Dutchman Bas Eickhout. She served three terms as an MEP (2009–2024), first elected into the European Parliament at the age of 27 in 2009.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Ska Keller” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.