German politician
Maja Lasić (born 1979, Mostar ) is a Yugoslavia-born German politician. She is an elected member of the Abgeordnetenhaus of Berlin , the parliament of the city and state of Berlin .[ 1]
Lasić was born in 1979 in Mostar in former Yugoslavia , now Bosnia and Herzegovina , and moved to Germany as a refugee aged 14. After two months in a special "welcome class" she joined mainstream high school classes, and passed her Abitur in 1998. She studied biology at the University of Münster and gained a Ph.D. in biochemistry (2008) from the University of Stuttgart . She worked for Procter & Gamble from 2007 to 2009 but then moved to become first a fellow and then a manager with Teach First Deutschland .[ 1] [ 2] She joined the SPD in 2010 and was elected to the Abgeordnetenhaus of Berlin in 2016, representing the "Central 7 [de ] " constituency which is centred on Wedding .[ 1] [ 3]
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