Željana Zovko
Željana Zovko (Mostar, 25 March 1970) is a Bosnian-Herzegovinian diplomat and politician.
Zovko, a Bosnian Croat from Mostar with dual citizenship of Bosnia and Herzegovina and Croatia, studied French language in London in the 1990s. She came back to Bosnia and Herzegovina in 1999 to work as associate for public relations and head of office for the Croat member of the Presidency of Bosnia and Herzegovina Ante Jelavić.
In the 2000s she moved to the diplomatic service: she was named resident ambassador of Bosnia and Herzegovina to France from 2004 to 2008 (competent also on Algeria, Tunisia, Monaco and Andorra as well as UNESCO), then ambassador to Spain between 2008 and 2011 (competent also on Morocco and the World Tourism Organisation).
In 2012 she came back to Bosnian politics, working until 2015 as foreign affairs advisor for the Chairman of the Council of Ministers of Bosnia and Herzegovina Vjekoslav Bevanda.
In May 2014 she contested the European Parliament election, 2014 (Croatia) on the list of the "Patriotic coalition" linked to the Croatian Democratic Union. She won 2,392 votes. She was not elected.
From May 2015 to October 2016 she was ambassador of Bosnia and Herzegovina to Italy.
In 2016, following the resignation of Andrej Plenkovic and Davor Ivo Stier who went to form a new government in Croatia, and the refusal of Ivan Tepeš to replace Stier, she took up a place in the European Parliament as MEP for Croatia. Her switch of loyalties from the Bosnian diplomatic service to representing Croatian voters in the European Parliament raised some criticisms in the press. She is member of the parliamentary committee on development (DEVE) and of the parliamentary delegation for relations with Bosnia and Herzegovina, and Kosovo (DSEE)
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