Lisa Paus

After graduating from high school she volunteered for one year at an orphanage in Hamburg, Germany. She then moved to Berlin to study at the Free University. She graduated in 1999 with a Master's Degree in economics. From 1997 until 1999, she worked for Frieder Otto Wolf who was a member of the European Parliament and Germany's Green Party. In 2005 she became a teacher at the Berlin School of Economics and Law.

In 2009, she had her first child.

In 1995, Paus joined Germany's Green Party, Alliance '90/The Greens. She was involved in the party in various forms. In 1999, she was elected to the Berlin parliament. There she was her party's economic spokesperson.

Paus has been a Member of the German Bundestag since the 2009 federal elections. She is a member of the Finance Committee and within the committee she is the Green's spokesperson. In her first term between 2009 and 2013, she also served on the Committee on the Affairs of the European Union.

In addition to her committee assignments, Paus has served as deputy chairwoman of the German-Irish Parliamentary Friendship Group (since 2014) and of the Parliamentary Friendship Group for Relations with Malta and Cyprus (since 2018). She is also a member of the German-Italian Parliamentary Friendship Group and the German-Slovenian Parliamentary Group.

Ahead of the 2017 elections, Paus was elected to lead her party’s campaign in the state of Berlin.[2]

• Forum Ökologisch-Soziale Marktwirtschaft (FÖS), Member of the Advisory Board
• Association for the Taxation of Financial Transactions and for Citizens' Action (ATTAC), Member

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