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Alexander Van der Bellen

Current President of Austria and former leader of the Green Party

Did you know?He spent many years as a respected professor of economics and earned the nickname Sascha due to his family's Russian heritage.

Alexander "Sascha" Van der Bellen (born 18 January 1944), also referred to by the abbreviation VdB, is an Austrian politician serving as the president of Austria since 2017. He was previously a professor of economics at the University of Vienna, and after joining politics, the spokesman of the Austrian Green Party.

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Age: 82
Status: Living

Born: January 18, 1944 · Vienna, Austria
Nationality: Austrian
Known for: Politics, Science

Family

Father: Alexander Van der Bellen
Mother: Alma Van der Bellen
Spouse: Doris Schmidauer
Children: Florian Van der Bellen, Nicolai Van der Bellen

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