Kolinda Grabar-Kitarović
| Kolinda Grabar-Kitarović | |
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| 4th President of Croatia | |
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Assumed office 19 February 2015 |
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| Prime Minister |
Zoran Milanović Tihomir Orešković Andrej Plenković |
| Preceded by | Ivo Josipović |
| Assistant Secretary General of NATO for Public Diplomacy | |
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In office 4 July 2011 – 2 October 2014 |
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| Preceded by | Stefanie Babst (Acting) |
| Succeeded by | Ted Whiteside (Acting) |
| Croatian Ambassador to the United States | |
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In office 8 March 2008 – 4 July 2011 |
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| Preceded by | Neven Jurica |
| Succeeded by | Vice Skračić (Acting) |
| 9th Minister of Foreign and European Affairs | |
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In office 17 February 2005 – 12 January 2008 |
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| Prime Minister | Ivo Sanader |
| Preceded by |
Miomir Žužul (Foreign Affairs) Herself (European Affairs) |
| Succeeded by | Gordan Jandroković |
| 4th Minister of European Affairs | |
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In office 23 December 2003 – 16 February 2005 |
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| Prime Minister | Ivo Sanader |
| Preceded by | Neven Mimica |
| Succeeded by | Position abolished |
| Personal details | |
| Born |
Kolinda Grabar 29 April 1968 Rijeka, Yugoslavia (now Croatia) |
| Political party |
Croatian Democratic Union (1993–2015) Independent (2015–present) |
| Spouse(s) | Jakov Kitarović (1996–present) |
| Children | 2 |
| Alma mater |
University of Zagreb Diplomatic Academy of Vienna |
| Website | Government website |
| ^* 4th counting from the 1990 Croatian parliamentary election. 20th Croatian president overall. | |
Kolinda Grabar-Kitarović (pronounced [kȏlǐndǎ gr̩abâr̩ kitǎːr̩oʋit͡ɕ]; born 29 April 1968) is a Croatian politician and diplomat who has served as the fourth President of Croatia since 19 February 2015. She is the first woman to be elected president after the first multi-party elections in 1990 and is also the youngest person to hold the office, aged 46.
Before her election as President, Grabar Kitarović held a number of governmental and diplomatic positions, both within Croatia and abroad. She served as Croatia's second female Minister of European Affairs (after Ljerka Mintas-Hodak) from 2003 to 2005 and first female Minister of Foreign Affairs and European Integration from 2005 to 2008 in both the first and second cabinets of Ivo Sanader and was also the Croatian ambassador to the United States from 2008 to 2011 and Assistant Secretary General for Public Diplomacy at NATO under Secretaries-General Anders Fogh Rasmussen and Jens Stoltenberg from 2011 to 2014. She remains the highest ranking female official to have served within NATO's governing structure.
She contested the presidential election held in December 2014 and January 2015, as the only female candidate out of four in total, finishing as the runner-up in the first round and thereafter proceeding to narrowly defeat incumbent President Ivo Josipović in the second round.
Grabar-Kitarović was a member of the conservative Croatian Democratic Union party from 1993 to 2015 and was also one of three Croatian members of the Trilateral Commission, but she was required to resign both positions upon taking office as president in 2015, as Croatian Presidents are not permitted to hold other political positions or party membership while in office.
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