Bahar Haghanipour

Bahar Haghanipour (born 1984) is a German social scientist and politician of Alliance 90/The Greens. Since 2021, she has been Vice President of the Abgeordnetenhaus of Berlin. She has been a member of the Abgeordnetenhaus since 2021.

Education and career Haghanipour was born in Tehran in 1984. She grew up in Berlin, where she graduated from secondary school in 2003. She then studied education as well as psychology and anthropology at the Ruhr University Bochum until 2009. In 2013, she completed her doctorate in sociology with the thesis Mentoring as gender-appropriate personnel development. In her dissertation, she focused on the topic of mentoring, as she does in her daily work, and reviewed the effectiveness and limitations of mentoring as gender-appropriate personnel development.

Haghanipour began working at the Technical University of Dortmund in 2009 as a manager for mentoring programs for girls and women in STEM subjects. She moved to Berlin in February 2015, where worked as a women's policy advisor in the office of Ulle Schauws. In July 2017, she began working at the German Women's Council, where she initially worked as a consultant.

In 2021, Haghanipour was nominated as direct candidate for the Neukölln 4 constituency in the 2021 Berlin state election. She was also elected to third place on the Greens' state list. She placed fourth with 6.7% of the vote in Neukölln 4 but was elected to the Abgeordnetenhaus on the state list.