Bio:
Joschka Fischer entered electoral politics after participating in the anti-establishment protests of the 1960’s and 1970’s, and played a key role in founding Germany's Green Party, which he led for almost two decades.
Fischer began his career in public office in the State of Hesse. From 1985 to 1987, Mr. Fischer was Minister for the Environment and Energy – making him the country’s first cabinet minister from the Green Party. After serving four years as political group chairman for the Greens in the Hessian Landtag, the State Assembly, Mr. Fischer held the offices of Deputy Minister-President of the State of Hesse and Hessian State Minister for the Environment, Energy and Federal Affairs from 1991 to 1994.
In 1994, he entered federal politics and became co-chairman of the Green Party’s federal parliamentary group. Fischer was German Foreign Minister and Vice Chancellor from 1998-2005. From 2006 to 2007, Mr. Fischer held a professorship at the Woodrow Wilson School of International and Public Affairs at Princeton University. He is a member of the Board of Trustees of the International Crisis Group and of the Executive Board of the European Council on Foreign Relations.