Cansel Kiziltepe | |
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![]() Kiziltepe in 2023 | |
Senator for Labour, Social Affairs, Equality, Integration, Diversity and Anti-Discrimination | |
Assumed office 27 April 2023 | |
Governing Mayor | Kai Wegner |
Preceded by | Katja Kipping |
Member of the Bundestag | |
In office 2013–2023 | |
Succeeded by | Ana-Maria Trăsnea |
Personal details | |
Born | Berlin,West Germany (now Germany) | 8 October 1975
Political party | SPD |
Alma mater | Technische Universität Berlin |
Cansel Kiziltepe (born 8 October 1975) is a German economist and politician of the Social Democratic Party (SPD) who has been serving as State Minister (Senator) for Labour,Social Affairs,Equality,Integration,Diversity and Anti-Discrimination in the government of Governing Mayor Kai Wegner since 2023. [1]
Prior to joining the state government,Kiziltepe was a member of the Bundestag from the state of Berlin from 2013 to 2023. In addition to her parliamentary work,she served as Parliamentary State Secretary in the Federal Ministry for Housing,Urban Development and Building in the coalition government of Chancellor Olaf Scholz from 2021 to 2023. [2]
Of ethnic Turkish origin, [3] [4] [5] Kiziltepe studied economics at Technische Universität Berlin. From 2005 until 2012,she worked as legislative advisor to Ottmar Schreiner. She subsequently worked as economist on the staff of board member Horst Neumann at Volkswagen from 2012 until 2013.
Kiziltepe became a member of the Bundestag in the 2013 German federal election. [6] From 2013 to 2021,she was a member of the Finance Committee;in this capacity,she served as her parliamentary group's rapporteur on plans to introduce a financial transaction tax. In 2018,she also joined the Sports Committee. [7] [8]
Within the SPD parliamentary group,Kiziltepe belonged to the Parliamentary Left,a left-wing movement. [9]
In the negotiations to form a so-called traffic light coalition of the SPD,the Green Party and the Free Democratic Party (FDP) following the 2021 federal elections,Kiziltepe was part of her party's delegation in the working group on financial regulation and the national budget,co-chaired by Doris Ahnen,Lisa Paus and Christian Dürr. [10]
Following the 2023 Berlin state election,Kiziltepe was appointed State Minister (Senator) for Labour,Social Affairs,Equality,Integration,Diversity and Anti-Discrimination in the government of Governing Mayor Kai Wegner. [11] As one of the state’s representatives at the Bundesrat since 2023,she has been serving on the Committee on Family and Senior Citizen Affairs,the Committee on Labour,Integration and Social Policy,and the Committee on Women and Youth. [12]
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