Alexander Van der Bellen

Alexander Van der Bellen
Alexander Van der Bellen in 2023
President of Austria
Incumbent
Assumed office 26 January 2017
Chancellor	Christian Kern Sebastian Kurz Brigitte Bierlein Sebastian Kurz Alexander Schallenberg Karl Nehammer
Preceded by	Heinz Fischer
Leader of the Green Party
In office December 1997 – 3 October 2008
Preceded by	Christoph Chorherr
Succeeded by	Eva Glawischnig-Piesczek
Personal details
Born	(1944-01-18) 18 January 1944 (age 80) Vienna, Nazi Germany (now Austria)
Political party	Social Democratic Party (Before 1992) Green Party (1992–2016) Independent (2016–present)
Spouse(s)	Brigitte (Divorced) Doris Schmidauer (2015–present)
Children	2
Alma mater	University of Innsbruck
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Alexander Van der Bellen (born 18 January 1944) is an Austrian politician and economist. He is the President of Austria since 2017. He won the 2016 election after multiple court battles and narrow victories.^[1] He was sworn into office on 26 January 2017 officially becoming the president. Van der Bellen is the country's second green president and the first to be directly elected by popular vote.^[2] He was re-elected in 2022.

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