The Route
Twelve stops, from 1990 to 2026. Each date is taken from the Bundestag or Federal Government biography or from official records; the year of arrival in Germany is derived from her own statement that she was six.
Born
1 May 1990, in Moscow.
Arrival
Aged six, with her family, who had fled political conditions in Iraq; first the reception centre in Horst (her own website).
Abitur
Gymnasium Fridericianum, Schwerin.
Political science
Freie Universität Berlin, Bachelor of Arts.
Orient Institute & NUMOV
Research associate at the German Orient Institute; country desks at the Near and Middle East Association.
State administration
Caseworker at the State Office for Internal Administration.
Head of the commissioner's office
Office of the state government's Integration Commissioner.
First public office
Integration Commissioner of the state government of Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania.
Joins the SPD; wins constituency 12
Direct mandate with 29.4 per cent on 26 September 2021. Re-elected via the state list in 2025.
Minister of State at the Chancellery
Commissioner for Migration, Refugees and Integration.
The first in the role
Appointed 23 February 2022. Report on racism in 2023; expert council; working definition in 2025. Also deputy state chair of the SPD in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania since 2022.
Federal Minister for Economic Cooperation and Development
Appointed on 6 May 2025.
Reform, Ukraine, Indonesia, budget
Reform plan (January); Middle East package (March); Sudan debate (May); Gdańsk (June); Indonesia (August); budget 2027 (September); UN General Assembly (September).
Sources: Bundestag · Federal Government · personal website