Dr. Jan-Niclas Gesenhues has been a member of the German Bundestag since 2021. He initially served as the environmental policy spokesperson for the Alliance 90/The Greens parliamentary group, as a member of the Committee on the Environment, Nature Conservation, Nuclear Safety and Consumer Protection, and as a substitute member of the Committee on Economic Cooperation and Development. In February 2024, he was appointed Parliamentary State Secretary to the Federal Minister for the Environment, Nature Conservation, Nuclear Safety and Consumer Protection.

He was re-elected to the Bundestag in the 2025 federal election and has since resumed his role as environmental policy spokesperson for his parliamentary group. He also heads the Working Group on the Environment, Climate Action, Nature Conservation and Nuclear Safety, serves on the Committee on the Environment, Climate Action, Nature Conservation and Nuclear Safety, and is a substitute member of the Committee on Economic Cooperation and Development.

After studying economics with a focus on environmental and resource economics in Münster, Jan-Niclas Gesenhues completed his doctorate in international environmental and energy policy in cooperation with the Chair of Renewable Energy at the University of Maputo, Mozambique. From 2019 to 2021, he worked as Head of International Projects at the Steinfurt-Warendorf District Crafts Association, where he was responsible for establishing and implementing partnership projects for the German Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development, including in Mozambique, South Africa, Jordan and Morocco.

Before entering the Bundestag, Jan-Niclas Gesenhues chaired the Environmental Committee of the Steinfurt District Council and was responsible for environmental policy, climate action and international cooperation on the state executive board of the Greens in North Rhine-Westphalia. In 2023, the Parliamentary Group on Global Biodiversity was established at his initiative.

Publications:

• Gesenhues, J. N. (2024): Offensiver Umweltschutz – Wie wir Natur und Wohlstand retten können. Murmann Verlag, Hamburg.
• Gesenhues, J. N. (2020): Dezentral und smart. Neue Ansätze der Stromversorgung in Mosambik. Rundbrief Mosambik 101, Koordinierungskreis Mosambik, Bielefeld.
• Gesenhues, J. N. (2020): Smart Energy in Mozambique. Drivers, Barriers and Options. Nomos, Baden-Baden.
• Gesenhues, J. N., Moeller, T. (2017): Strategien für die Verkehrswende: Wie und warum ein Landkreis klimafreundliche Mobilität vorantreibt. In: Nachhaltiger Verkehr in urbanen Räumen. Ansichten aus Deutschland, der Ukraine und Russland. Russisch-Deutsches Büro für Umweltinformationen, Berlin.
• Gesenhues, J. N. (2017): Engpass Stromversorgung. Ursachen und Lösungsansätze zur Überwindung von Energiearmut. Rundbrief Mosambik 90, Koordinierungskreis Mosambik, Bielefeld.