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Vula Tsetsi

Vula Tsetsi has been the Co-Chair of the European Green Party since December 2024. In her first year as Co-Chair, she has focused on strengthening our Green Identity, defending social justice throughout Europe and fostering cohesion within the Green family. Prior to this, she was the Secretary General of the Greens/EFA group in the European Parliament for 20 years, a position for which she was reelected five times. Before becoming Co-Chair, she served on the executive committee of the EGP, where she contributed to strengthening the Green movement in Southern and Central Europe. Vula is an urban and regional planner by trade, having studied at the IUAV University of Venice. She has contributed to several publications on sustainable development. She speaks Greek, English, French and Italian, and has a passion for swimming.

Ciarán Cuffe

Ciarán Cuffe is the Co-Chair of the European Green Party since December 2024. He served as a Member of the European Parliament from 2019-2024, and was the Parliament’s lead negotiator for the recast Energy Performance of Buildings Directive. He sits on the board of Building Performance Institute Europe. Prior to his election to the European Parliament in 2019, he held various roles in Irish politics, including serving as a Dublin City Councillor, Teachta Dála (TD) for Dún Laoghaire, and Minister of State with responsibility for sustainable transport and climate change. He holds degrees in architecture and urban planning from University College Dublin and an MSc in Cities from the London School of Economics.

Yolanda Díaz Pérez

Yolanda Díaz is Spain’s Second Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Labour and Social Economy. A labour lawyer by training, she has become one of Europe’s leading voices for progressive economic transformation. Díaz has spearheaded landmark labour reforms that strengthened collective bargaining, reduced precarious work, and delivered record employment levels in Spain. She is also a prominent advocate for a just green transition, democratic digital governance, and the protection of social rights in the face of rising inequality and technological disruption. As the founder of Sumar, a broad progressive platform, Díaz is known for building coalitions across civil society, trade unions, and political actors to advance a more democratic, feminist, and sustainable future. Her work has positioned Spain as a reference for labour innovation and inclusive policymaking across the European Union.

Ernest Urtasun Domènech

Born in Barcelona in 1982. Academic training: - Career diplomat. - Postgraduate in International Relations from the University of Barcelona. - Bachelor's degree in Economic Sciences from the Autonomous University of Barcelona Political and professional career: - Minister of Culture of Spain (November 2023 - present) - MEP (2014-2023). Member of the Economic and Monetary Affairs Committee, Women's Rights and Gender Equality Committee, Fiscal Affairs Subcommittee and Foreign Affairs Committee. - Diplomatic advisor to the secretary general of the Union for the Mediterranean (2011-2013) - Diplomat in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Cooperation, in the Cabinets of Miguel Ángel Moratinos and Trinidad Jiménez (2010-2011) - Advisor in the European Parliament (2006-2010)

Agnese Lāce

Agnese is the co-chair of PROGRESĪVIE and the Minister of Culture of Latvia. She holds master’s degrees in political science and sociology, with a specialisation in migration and integration studies. Agnese has extensive experience in research and advocacy on migration policy and the integration of refugees, migrants, and national minorities at both national and international levels, including work with the UNHCR and the OSCE High Commissioner on National Minorities. She has served as Minister of Culture of Latvia since June 2024, having previously held the position of Vice-Minister for nine months. At the Ministry of Culture, she is responsible for cultural policy, social cohesion, and media policy, with a strong emphasis on fostering belonging and societal resilience.

Rui Tavares

Rui Tavares is a historian and writer. He is the co-chair of LIVRE and Member of the Portuguese Parliament since 2022. He was also opposition councillor on Lisbon City Council from 2021 until 2025. In addition to his work as a historian, he also writes for the Portuguese newspaper Expresso, the Brazilian newspaper Folha de São Paulo, and he also contributes to the Green European Journal. He has published several books, mainly non-fiction, on historical or political themes, also he is the author of the documentary film «Ulysses: Breaking the Spell of the Crisis to Save Europe».

Isabel Mendes Lopes

Isabel is the co-chair of the party and parliamentary leader of LIVRE. Member of the Portuguese Parliament since 2024, she is an engineer, specialized in mobility and transportations. At LIVRE since the beginning, she served on the Lisbon City Council from 2021 to 2025.

Luka Mesec

Luka Mesec is the Deputy Prime Minister of Slovenia and the Minister of Labour, Family, Social Affairs and Equal Opportunities of Slovenia since 2022. As Minister, he has driven wide-ranging social reforms to strengthen workers’ rights, reduce precarity, and modernise welfare systems. His work has included a significant increase in the minimum wage, expanded investment in public housing, and the introduction of a forward-looking pension reform. He served as a Member of the National Assembly from 2014 to 2022. He led the progressive left-wing party Levica from 2017 to 2023 and returned to the party’s leadership in 2025 as co-coordinator. Mesec is committed to a socially equitable green transition and to promoting economic models that balance innovation with solidarity.

Sandra Benčić

Sandra Benčić is a Croatian politician and legal expert who graduated from the Faculty of Law at the University of Zagreb. She demonstrated an early interest in human rights during her university education and subsequently pursued a career in civil society organisations. Benčić is one of the founders and coordinators of the Green-Left political party Možemo!. Since the 2020 national parliamentary elections, she has been serving as the president of the Možemo! parliamentary group and has acted as the Chair of the Environment and Nature Conservation Committee in the Croatian Parliament. In the 2024 parliamentary election, Sandra was the designated candidate for the office of Prime Minister on behalf of Možemo!, and the party doubled its seats in Parliament. Her main areas of work concern environmental protection, transparency, and fair economic policies.

Jesse Klaver

Jesse Klaver is the leader of the Labour-Greens alliance in the Dutch House of Representatives. Before he became party leader he was a member of parliament for the Greens, serving as their leader from 2015 till 2023. Jesse is the proud father of four boys. He lives in The Hague.

Felix Banaszak

Felix Banaszak is the Co-Head of the German Alliance 90/The Greens, after being elected in November 2024. He was born and raised in Duisburg, a highly industrialized city in Germany and has been serving as a member of the Federal Parliament since 2021. In his political career, Felix Banaszak focuses on finance and energy policy as well as questions concerning climate change, the industrial transition and social justice.

Anja Presnukhina

Biljana Đorđević

Biljana Đorđević is a Serbian politician and political theorist. She has served as Co-President of the Green–Left Front since 2023 and as a Member of the National Assembly of the Republic of Serbia since 2022, where she is Deputy Chair of the Green–Left Front parliamentary group. She sits on the Parliamentary Committee on the Economy, Regional Development, Trade, Tourism and Energy, as well as on the EU–Serbia Stabilisation and Association Parliamentary Committee. Her work focuses on social justice, participatory democracy, and feminist politics. Biljana Đorđević is an Assistant Professor at the Faculty of Political Science, University of Belgrade.

Tomislav Tomašević

Tomislav Tomašević is serving his second mandate as Mayor of Zagreb. He was first elected to lead the city in 2021 with a record number of votes and was re-elected in 2025. He is one of the co-coordinators of the Croatian Green party Možemo!. He holds a master's degree in Environment, Society and Development from the University of Cambridge, and a master's degree and B.A. in political science from the University of Zagreb. Before entering politics, he led various environmental, youth and urban activism organisations and initiatives.

Nasser Abu Baker

A seasoned Palestinian journalist from the town of Ya’bad, with over 30 years of experience in national and international media. He earned his Bachelor's degree in Media and Journalism from the University of Algiers in 1992 and began his journalism career while still a student, working at the independent Algerian newspaper El Khabar. In 1994, he joined the Palestinian Broadcasting Corporation (PBC), and from 2000 to 2022 worked as a professional journalist with Agence France-Presse (AFP). He served as Deputy President of the Palestinian Journalists Syndicate from 2012 to 2016, and has been the elected Head of the Syndicate since 2016. He was also elected Vice President of the Federation of Arab Journalists (2016–2022), and since 2022 has been serving as Vice President of the International Federation of Journalists (IFJ). He is currently fully dedicated to union work and the advocacy of press freedom and journalists' rights in Palestine.

Marie Toussaint

Marie Toussaint is a French environmental activist, a jurist in international environmental law, founder of the NGO Notre affaire à tous and of the International parliamentary alliance for the recognition of ecocide (Ecocide Alliance), she initiated the biggest European petition and climate litigation case: L'Affaire du Siècle. She has been elected Member of the European Parliament since 2019 where she sits with the Greens/EFA group. Daughter of activists of the Fourth World Movement, she fights for human dignity, a world and a Europe of Care, rights of nature and environmental justice.

Gordan Bosanac

Gordan Bosanac is a Croatian Member of the European Parliament with the Greens/EFA group. After years of human rights work and civic activism, he entered politics through the Možemo! Platform. In the European Parliament, he serves on the Committees on Regional Development, on Employment and Social Affairs, on Petitions, and the Special Committee on the Housing Crisis in the EU, where he is the Greens/EFA Coordinator. He also contributes to delegations for relations with Japan, North Macedonia, and Bosnia and Herzegovina and Kosovo.

Benedetta Scuderi

Benedetta Scuderi is an Italian MEP from Alleanza Verdi e Sinistra, part of the Greens/EFA group. She holds a master's degree in Sustainability and Energy and a master's degree in Public Policy. In her professional life, she is a sustainability consultant for businesses. In the European Parliament, she is a full member of the ITRE (Industry, Research, and Energy) and FEMM (Women's Rights and Gender Equality) committees, as well as a substitute member of the EMPL (Employment and Social Affairs) and CULT (Culture and Education) committees. She joined Europa Verde in 2019 and co-founded Giovani Europeisti Verdi, the youth wing of the Italian Greens. She served as co-spokesperson of the Federation of Young European Greens from 2022 to 2024.

Claire Colomb

Claire Colomb (FR/UK) is Professor at the University of Cambridge, specialising in Planning, Public Policy and Urban Studies. Over the past 25 years she has lived, worked and researched in France, the UK, Germany and Spain. Her latest book, co-authored with T. Aguilera and F. Artioli of the book, is Housing under Platform Capitalism. The Contentious Regulation of Short-Term Rentals in European Cities (University of California Press, 2025). She has just completed a briefing for the European Parliament’s Special Committee on the Housing Crisis on “The regulatory aspects of short-term rentals in the EU”.

Benedetta De Marte

Benedetta De Marte has been Secretary General of the European Green Party since 2022. Originally from Milan, Italy, she now resides in Belgium and serves as a local Green councillor in Brussels City. With over a decade of experience in the European Green movement, as Secretary General, De Marte has focused on expanding the European Green Party, strengthening party cohesion across Europe and fostering the Green movement in EU accession countries.