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Reem Alabali-Radovan
German politician (born 1990) From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Reem Alabali-Radovan (German pronunciation: [ˈʁiːm alaˈbaːli ˈʁaːdovaːn];[1] born 1 May 1990) is a German politician of the Social Democratic Party (SPD) who has been serving as the Minister for Economic Cooperation and Development in the government of Chancellor Friedrich Merz since May 2025.[2]
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Alabali-Radovan has been a Member of the Bundestag since 2021. In addition to her parliamentary work, she served as Minister of State at the Chancellery and Federal Commissioner for Migration, Refugees, and Integration in Chancellor Olaf Scholz's cabinet from 2021 to 2025. Together with Muhanad Al-Halak, she was the first person of Iraqi descent in the Bundestag.[3]
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Alabali-Radovan was born in Moscow in 1990. Her parents, Iraqi Arab and Chaldean[4] who opposed the government of Saddam Hussein, had moved to the Soviet Union in the 1980s to study engineering. Her paternal grandfather,[which?] Muhammad Salih Alabali, was an Iraqi resistance leader who had been executed by the Ba'athist government.[3] In 1996, the family sought, and received asylum in Germany, settling in Mecklenburg-Vorpommern.[5][6][7]
Alabali-Radovan completed her school education at the Gymnasium Fridericianum Schwerin. Alabali graduated with a bachelor's degree in political science from the Free University of Berlin and obtained a master's degree program (distance learning) in Sustainable Development Cooperation at the Technical University of Kaiserslautern.[8]
From June 2012 to July 2014, she worked as a technical staff member at the German Orient Institute and was employed in the field of economic development at the Near and Middle East Association in Berlin — initially as an assistant, later as a country officer. In May 2015, she returned to Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania and worked at the Office for Migration and Refugee Affairs of the State Office for Internal Administration of Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania, specifically at the initial reception center for refugees in Nostorf — where she herself had been received with her parents in 1996.
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Career in state politics
In 2020, Alabali-Radovan was appointed Commissioner for integration of the Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania state government.
Member of the German Parliament, 2021–present
At the 2021 German federal election Alabali-Radovan was elected in the constituency of Schwerin – Ludwigslust-Parchim I – Nordwestmecklenburg I, defeating incumbent Dietrich Monstadt of the CDU.[9][10]
Within her parliamentary group, Alabali-Radovan belongs to the Parliamentary Left, a left-wing movement.[11]
On 8 December 2021, the Scholz cabinet appointed Alabali-Radovan as Federal Commissioner for Migration, Refugees and Integration with the rank of a Minister of State in the Federal Chancellery. From 23 February 2022, she additionally served as the Federal Government Commissioner for Anti-Racism.
Ahead of the 2025 German federal election,[12] Alabali-Radovan was the top candidate for the SPD on the party's state list in Mecklenburg-Vorpommern.[13]
In the negotiations to form a Grand Coalition between the Christian Democrats (CDU together with the Bavarian CSU) under the leadership of Friedrich Merz and the Social Democratic Party (SPD) following the 2025 German elections, Alabali-Radovan was part of the SPD delegation in the working group on domestic policy, legal affairs, migration and integration, led by Günter Krings, Andrea Lindholz and Dirk Wiese.[14]
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