Katharina Beck

Beck was born to a family of bakers in Düsseldorf in 1982 and grew up in Duisburg.^[1] While her parents both attended university, she described her family as very down-to-earth.^[1] She studied Latin American studies at the University of Cologne and the National University of Tucumán.^[4]

After graduating, Beck was President of oikos International from 2007 to 2009 and worked at the Institute for Social Banking from 2009 to 2011.

Beck worked as a management consultant, specialising in sustainability, at Accenture before her election as MP.^[1][4]

Beck joined the Greens at the age of 27 in 2009.^[1] Katharina Fegebank, later second mayor of Hamburg, became her mentor in 2012.^[1] She became chair of the Green's federal working party on economic and financial affairs and speaker of working party chairs.^[5]

Beck has been politically active in Hamburg in the district association Hamburg-Nord since 2011. She was the spokeswoman for all 25 federal working groups of Bündnis 90/Die Grünen as well as the spokeswoman for the federal working group for economic afffairs and finance.^[6][7][8] From 2017 to 2021 she was a member of the Economic Advisory Council of the Green Party's parliamentary group in the Bundestag.^[9]

In 2021 Beck ran as a direct candidate for the district of Hamburg-Nord and as a top candidate for list number 1 of the Hamburg Greens and entered the Bundestag via the state list.^[10][11]