Noosha Aubel

Noosha Aubel is the Lord Mayor of Potsdam, Germany, and a nonpartisan public-sector leader with more than two decades of experience in municipal administration. A trained educational scientist with a Master’s degree in Organizational Management, she began her career working with children, young people and families before moving into local government in 2004. She has held senior leadership positions in the cities of Viersen and Hilden and served as Deputy Mayor of Potsdam for Education, Culture, Youth and Sports from 2017 to 2023. She subsequently worked as Co-Managing Director of the Entrepreneurs’ Foundation for Equal Opportunities and as City Councillor and Head of Department for Education, Sports, Public Order, Health, Social Affairs and Culture in Flensburg. In October 2025, Noosha Aubel was elected Lord Mayor of Potsdam and took office on October 24, 2025. In her role, she focuses on effective and citizen-oriented public administration, equal opportunities and education, affordable housing, sustainable urban development, and creating the conditions for a future-oriented local economy. Her academic work has focused particularly on leadership and organizational transformation in the public sector, including transformational leadership in municipal administration.