Alexander Van der Bellen

Alexander Van der Bellen

Alexander Van der Bellen (German pronunciation: [alɛˈksandɐ fan deːɐ̯ ˈbɛlən]; born 18 January 1944) is the current president of Austria. He previously served as a professor of economics at the University of Vienna, and after joining politics, as the spokesman of the Austrian Green Party.As a descendant of the Russian aristocratic von der Bellen (Van der Bellen) family of patrilineal Dutch ancestry, he was born in Austria to Russian and Estonian parents who were refugees from Stalinism, and became a naturalized citizen of Austria together with his parents in 1958. He was a member of the National Council representing the Green Party there from 1994 to 2012, and served as both leader of the party as well as its parliamentary group.He ran as a nominally independent candidate supported by the Greens in the 2016 presidential election, and finished second out of six in the first round before winning the second round against Norbert Hofer, a member of the Freedom Party. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Alexander Van der Bellen has received more than 1,215,493 page views. Her biography is available in 71 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 65 in 2019). Alexander Van der Bellen is the 985th most popular politician (up from 1,183rd in 2019), the 291st most popular biography from Germany and the 80th most popular German Politician.

Alexander Van der Bellen is a former economics professor and politician who was the President of Austria from January 2017 to December 2018. He is most famous for being the first president of Austria to be elected by popular vote and the first to be elected as an independent.