President of Croatia

Kolinda Grabar Kitarović - President of Croatia ( Predsjednik Hrvatske)

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Kolinda Grabar-Kitarović - President of Croatia Kolinda Grabar-Kitarović (born 29 April 1968) is the fourth President of the Republic of Croatia. From 2011 until 2014 she served as the Assistant Secretary General for Public Diplomacy at NATO. She is the first woman ever to be appointed the position of Assistant Secretary General at NATO. Previously she was the Minister of Foreign Affairs of Croatia from 2005 to 2008 and Croatia's Ambassador to the United States from 2008 to 2011.She is the member of Croatian Democratic Union and one of the members of Trilateral Commission. Education Kolinda Grabar was born in Rijeka, Croatia. She lived in the United States for part of her childhood and graduated from Los Alamos High School in Los Alamos, New Mexico. She then attended the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Zagreb, graduating in 1992 with a Bachelor of Arts in English and Spanish languages and literature.From 1995 to 1996, she attended the Diploma Course at the Diplomatic Academy of Vienna. In 2000 she obtained a master's degree in international relations from the Faculty of Political Science at the University of Zagreb. From 2002-2003 she attended George Washington University as a Fulbright scholar. She also received a Luksic Fellowship for the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard and was a visiting scholar at the School of Advanced International Studies at Johns Hopkins University. Career In 1992, Grabar-Kitarović became an advisor to the international cooperation department of the ministry of science and technology of Croatia. In 1993 she moved to the foreign ministry, becoming an advisor.In 1995 she became the head of the North American department of the foreign ministry, remaining in that position until 1997. In 1997 she began to work at the Croatian embassy in Canada, as a diplomatic councilor until October 1998 and then as a minister-councilor. She remained in Canada until 2000. In 2001 Grabar-Kitarović became a minister-councilor to the ministry of foreign affairs. She left that position in 2003. In November 2003 she was elected to the Croatian Parliament from the seventh electoral district as a member of the Croatian Democratic Union (HDZ). In the government formed in December 2003, she became the minister of European integration, beginning negotiations in 2004 for Croatia to join the European Union. In February 2005 Grabar-Kitarović was nominated to become the Foreign Affairs Minister of Croatia. She was confirmed by parliament and sworn in on February 17, 2005.Her main task as foreign minister was to guide Croatia into the European Union and NATO. She was succeeded as foreign minister by Gordan Jandroković in January 2008, following the November 2007 parliamentary election. Presidential candidacy In September 2012, the daily newspaper Jutarnji List stated that Grabar-Kitarović was being considered as a possible candidate for the 2015 Croatian presidential election by the Croatian Democratic Union (HDZ). In 2014 it was confirmed that she was officially HDZ's candidate for president, going up against incumbent Ivo Josipović.On the day of elections in December 2014, Grabar-Kitarovic received 37.22% of the vote, second to Josipović who received 38.46%. They faced each other in a run-off election on 11 January 2015 where she WON! Click Here To Subscribe - Never Miss A Video! https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC__T-WyljvhgllMmIjHXfkQ See all my other videos here: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC__T-WyljvhgllMmIjHXfkQ/playlists MVChannel https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC__T-WyljvhgllMmIjHXfkQ I created this video with the YouTube Video Editor (http://www.youtube.com/editor)