Monika Griefahn

co-founder, Greenpeace Germany

Monika Griefahn is a German politician of the SPD (since 1992) from Mülheim. Since 1998 she has been a member of the German Bundestag. Griefahn co-founded Greenpeace Germany in 1980, leading its Hamburg office for ten years. From 1984 through 1990 she was a member of the board of directors of Greenpeace International. She studied math and social sciences in Göttingen and Hamburg and graduated with a diploma in 1979. She is married to chemist Prof. Dr. Michael Braungart and has three children.