Ana Brnabić

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Ana Brnabić
Prime Minister Ana Brnabic with her Croatian counterpart Andrej Plenković at the Europaforum Wachau 2018

Ana Brnabić ( Serbian - Cyrillic Ана Брнабић ; born September 28, 1975 in Belgrade ) is a Serbian politician. She has been Prime Minister of Serbia since June 29, 2017 and has been a member of the Serbian Progress Party since 2019 .

biography

Ana Brnabić was born in Belgrade. Her paternal grandfather comes from the Croatian island of Krk , her grandmother from Užice . Her mother's family comes from Babušnica . She studied business administration at Northwood University in Michigan , after which she earned an MBA from the University of Hull, England . After her training, she worked in various international organizations, including the United States Agency for International Development (USAID), as well as development organizations and state-owned Serbian companies.

She has been Serbia's Minister of Public Administration and Local Self-Government since August 2016. She is also President of the Government Advisory Council on Innovative Entrepreneurship and Information Technology and the Advisory Board on National Minorities and Deputy President of the Advisory Board on Public Administration Reform.

She was proposed as Prime Minister of Serbia by President Aleksandar Vučić on June 15, 2017 . The National Assembly of Serbia confirmed the proposal on June 29, 2017. Brnabić is the country's first female prime minister. Conservative political circles in Serbia, including the Serbian Orthodox Church , raised the mood against Brnabić's nomination, mainly because Brnabić made no secret of her same-sex sexual orientation. At the Belgrade Gay Pride Parade in autumn 2016, she was photographed with a little rainbow flag . On the other hand, there was also accusation of political fraud. In February 2019, her partner Milica Djurdjic gave birth to a son. As the director of the Serbian subsidiary of the US wind power company Continental Wind, Brnabić defended the director of the state company Elektromreža Srbije (“Serbia's Power Grids”) and confidante of President Vučić, Nikola Petrović , against allegations of corruption. As a “reward”, so the allegations, she received a ministerial office in the government just a few months later. In the government she had shown her unconditional loyalty to President Vučić.

In 2019, the previously independent Brnabić joined President Vučić's Serbian Progressive Party (SNS).

Ana Brnabić is fluent in English and Russian .

literature

  • Adelheid Wölfl: Ana Brnabić: She plays with us. In: Emma , 335, November – December 2017, p. 14 f. (with photo)

Web links

Commons : Ana Brnabić  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files
  • Profile Ana Brnabic on the website of the Ministry of Public Administration and Local Self-Government (Serbian)

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ B92 - Rodoslov mandatarke, "Srbija domovina, deo korena iz HR" (Serbian), accessed on June 23, 2017
  2. ↑ a b Tages-Anzeiger - Open to Europe, Open to Women , accessed on June 23, 2017
  3. ↑ Queer.de: The partner of Serbia's head of government gives birth to a son
  4. ↑ Ana Brnabic is Serbia's first head of government. , Der Standard , June 15, 2017, accessed the same day.
  5. ↑ Serbia's openly homosexual head of government. Deutsche Welle , June 15, 2017, accessed on the same day.
  6. ↑ Thomas Roser: Ana Brnabić: Competent, loyal and lesbian. Die Zeit , June 17, 2017, accessed on June 22, 2017 .
  7. ↑ PM Brnabic joins Vucic's ruling Serbian Progressive Party. In: n1info.com. October 10, 2019, accessed on February 27, 2020 .
personal data
SURNAME Brnabić, Ana
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Serbian politician
DATE OF BIRTH September 28, 1975
PLACE OF BIRTH Belgrade