Filiz Polat

Filiz Polat (born 11 July 1978) is a German politician for the Alliance 90/The Greens.

Early years Polat was born on 11 July 1978 in Bramsche, a town in Osnabrück District, Germany, to a Turkish physician father and a German regional politician mother.

She was schooled in Bramsche where she also attended high school. She finished her secondary education in Münster with Abitur and studied Economics at the Goethe University Frankfurt graduating with a thesis on "Employment Effects of Technological Change: A Micro-econometric Approach" in 2002. That year, she administered also an intermediate exam in Political Science. She was re-elected in the 2008 election in Lower Saxony. Polat became the deputy chairperson of her party's parliamentary group in February 2013. From 2006 Polat also served on the city council of Bramsche again.

In 2020, Polat co-founded a cross-party working group on diversity and antiracism.

Ahead of the 2021 elections, Polat was elected to lead the Green Party's campaign in Lower Saxony, alongside Sven-Christian Kindler. In the negotiations to form a so-called traffic light coalition of the Social Democratic Party (SPD), the Green Party and the Free Democratic Party (FDP) following the elections, she was part of her party's delegation in the working group on migration and integration, co-chaired by Boris Pistorius, Luise Amtsberg and Joachim Stamp.

Other activities Islamkolleg Deutschland (IKD), Member of the Board of Trustees (since 2021) Federal Agency for Civic Education (BPB), Alternate Member of the Board of Trustees (2018–2021) Niedersächsische Lotto-Sport-Stiftung, Member of the Board of Trustees (–2019) Verband Entwicklungspolitik Niedersachsen (VEN), Member