Maja Lasić

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]