Ciarán Cuffe (born 3 April 1963) is an Irish politician who has been co-chair of the European Green Party (EGP) since December 2024.

[2] He was born in Shankill, Dublin, the son of Luan Peter Cuffe[3] and Patricia Sistine Skakel.

Luan Cuffe was an architect who was involved in town planning for Dún Laoghaire and Wicklow before taking over his brother-in-law's architectural practice.

Luan Cuffe trained in Harvard University under Walter Gropius where he met Patricia Skakel whom he married.

[4] Cuffe's granduncle was the Fianna Fáil TD Patrick Little, and his great-grandfather Philip Francis Little was the first Prime Minister of Newfoundland in 1854.

[9] He teaches a masters programme in urban regeneration & development at the Dublin Institute of Technology, Bolton Street.

In June 2003, he stepped down as the Green Party's environment spokesperson after it was revealed that he held shares worth $70,000 in a number of oil exploration companies which he had inherited when his late mother had left him $1.3 million in her will.

[27] As a member of the Central Area Committee for Dublin City Council, he worked to provide a site for the Gaelscoil Choláiste Mhuire primary school on Dominick Street in 2017.

[33] Cuffe was selected as the Green Party candidate for the Dublin constituency at the 2019 European Parliament elections.

[34] He was also re-elected to Dublin City Council, but due to the prohibition on a dual mandate, this seat was co-opted to fellow Green Party member Janet Horner.

[35] Cuffe is a member of the TRAN (Transport and Tourism) Committee of the European Parliament and is the Coordinator of the Greens-EFA Group.