Kolinda Grabar-Kitarović

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Birth Name: Kolinda Grabar

Age: 56, born 29 April 1968

Country of origin: Croatia

Currently Residing In: Croatia

Relationship Status: Married

Partner: Jakov Kitarović

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Description: Kolinda Grabar-Kitarović (born 29 April 1968) is a Croatian politician and diplomat who has been the President of Croatia since 2015. She is the first woman to be elected president after the first multi-party elections in 1990. At 46 years of age, she became the youngest person to enter the office. President Grabar-Kitarović with General Drago Lovrić and Defence Minister Ante Kotromanović at 2015 Military Parade in Zagreb commemorating the 20th anniversary of Operation Storm President Grabar-Kitarović with the US Secretary of State John Kerry at the Equal Futures Partnership meeting, 2016 Before her election as pre Kolinda Grabar-Kitarović (born 29 April 1968) is a Croatian politician and diplomat who has been the President of Croatia since 2015. She is the first woman to be elected president after the first multi-party elections in 1990. At 46 years of age, she became the youngest person to enter the office.

President Grabar-Kitarović with General Drago Lovrić and Defence Minister Ante Kotromanović at 2015 Military Parade in Zagreb commemorating the 20th anniversary of Operation Storm

President Grabar-Kitarović with the US Secretary of State John Kerry at the Equal Futures Partnership meeting, 2016

Before her election as president, Grabar-Kitarović held a number of governmental and diplomatic positions. She was Minister of European Affairs from 2003 to 2005, the first female Minister of Foreign Affairs and European Integration from 2005 to 2008 in both the first and second cabinets of Ivo Sanader, 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.

Grabar-Kitarović 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. Her strong performance in the first round was widely viewed as unexpected, as most opinion polls had given incumbent president Josipović a strong lead and some even showed it was possible that he would win outright by acquiring more than 50% of the vote. In the second round Grabar-Kitarović defeated Josipović by the closest percentage margin of any presidential election to date (1,48%) and received the smallest number of votes of any elected president in Croatia (1.114 million votes). Furthermore, as Croatia had previously also had a female Prime Minister, Jadranka Kosor, from 2009 until 2011, Grabar-Kitarović's election as president also included the country into a small group of parliamentary republics which have had both a female head of state and head of government.

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.

In 2017, Forbes magazine listed Grabar-Kitarović as the world's 39th most powerful woman. ... (more)

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