Omid Nouripour
Omid Nouripour (born June 18, 1975, in Tehran) is an Iranian-German politician, a member of Alliance '90/The Greens and a member of the German parliament (Bundestag).
Early life and education
In 1988, Nouripour immigrated to Germany. He studied at the University of Mainz for more than ten years, but did not earn a degree. In 2002, he became a German citizen.
He is native in Persian and fluent in German and English.
Political career
Nouripour was elected to the German Federal Parliament in 2006 as the first Member of Parliament of Iranian descent, taking the vacated seat of former Foreign Minister Joschka Fischer.
Between 2006 and 2013, Nouripour was a member of the Defence Committee as well as of the Budget Committee, where he served as his parliamentary group's rapporteur on the budgets of the Federal Foreign Office (AA), the Federal Ministry of the Interior (BMI), the Federal Ministry of Health (BMG), the Federal Court of Auditors (BRH) and the Office of the Federal President.
