Željka Cvijanović

Željka Cvijanović ( Serbian - Cyrillic Жељка Цвијановић ; * August 2, 1967 in Teslić , SFR Yugoslavia as Željka Grabovac ) is a Bosnian politician. She was Prime Minister of the Republika Srpska from March 12, 2013 to November 19, 2018 . On October 7, 2018, she was elected President of the Republic of Srpska. She is a member of the Serbian nationalist party Savez nezavisnih socijaldemokrata .

biography

Before she turned to politics, Cvijanović was an English teacher. She studied at the Philosophical Faculty in Sarajevo as well as at the Philosophical Faculty and the Law Faculty of the University of Banja Luka . She is a professor of English language and literature and holds a master's degree in diplomatic and consular law from the University of Banja Luka on the subject of "International and Legal Status of the European Union ".

Cvijanović worked as an English teacher and as a senior interpreter and assistant for the European Union Monitoring Mission in Bosnia and Herzegovina. Subsequently, she was an advisor for European integration and cooperation with international organizations of the Prime Minister of the Republic of Srpska, Milorad Dodik . Here she became head of the Prime Minister's Cabinet and headed the Department for Coordination and European Integration.

In the 2010–2014 electoral term, she was an external member of the Committee on European Integration and Regional Cooperation of the National Assembly of the Republika Srpska. On December 29, 2010 she was appointed Minister of Economy and Regional Cooperation in the government of the Republic of Srpska under the leadership of Prime Minister Aleksandar Džombić and on March 12, 2013 by President Milorad Dodik as Prime Minister of the Republic, making her the first woman in this Office became.

In the Bosnian parliamentary elections in 2014, Cvijanović ran as a candidate for the incumbent coalition of Savez nezavisnih socijaldemokrata as the Serbian member of the presidency of Bosnia and Herzegovina. She lost to opposition candidate Mladen Ivanić ( PDP ) and was then reappointed to the office of Prime Minister in the 15th government of the Republika Srpska.

Private

Cvijanović is married and has two sons.

Web links

Commons : Željka Cvijanović - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

↑ Željka Cvijanović Biografija. January 2, 2018, accessed November 3, 2019 (sr-RS).
↑ Biography | Предсједник Републике Српске | Жељка Цвијановић. Retrieved November 3, 2019 .

personal data
SURNAME	Cvijanović, Željka
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Цвијановић, Жељка; Grabovac, Željka (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Bosnian politician
DATE OF BIRTH	2nd August 1967
PLACE OF BIRTH	Teslić , SFR Yugoslavia

[1] Željka Cvijanović Biografija. January 2, 2018, accessed November 3, 2019 (sr-RS).

[2] Biography | Предсједник Републике Српске | Жељка Цвијановић. Retrieved November 3, 2019 .