Martina Dalić

Martina Dalić (* 12. November 1967 in Velika Gorica as Martina Štimac ) is a Croatian economist and politician .

Career

Dalić studied economics until she graduated with a diploma in 1990 at the University of Zagreb , followed by postgraduate studies between 1992 and 1994 . From 1995 she worked in the Croatian Ministry of Finance , where she took over the management of the department for macroeconomic forecasts under Finance Minister Božo Prka . When his successor Borislav Škegro took office in 1997, she was promoted to deputy minister. In the parliamentary elections in 2000 , the Hrvatska demokratska zajednica (HDZ) lost its majority and after the change of government, Dalić moved to the private sector as chief economist at Privredna banka Zagreb .

After the parliamentary elections in 2003 , the HDZ returned to government responsibility, and Dalić also returned to the Ministry of Finance the following year. There she was responsible for strategic issues and, as deputy negotiator and member of the Stabilization and Association Committee EU-Croatia, played a key role in Croatia's accession negotiations with the European Union . In 2008 she took over the management of Partner banka . In December 2010, under Prime Minister Jadranka Kosor , she succeeded Ivan Šuker as Finance Minister, but had to hand over her office to Slavko Linić from Socijaldemokratska partija Hrvatske just under a year after the 2011 parliamentary election . In the elections, however, she moved into the Sabor as a member of the HDZ ; in July 2015, she resigned from her mandate.

After the parliamentary elections in 2016 , Dalić was Minister for Economic Affairs in Andrej Plenković's cabinet . Together with Damir Krstičević , Predrag Štromar and Marija Pejčinović Burić , she was Deputy Prime Minister. In April 2017, Agrokor, the largest private Croatian company, was placed under state supervision due to over-indebtedness. In spring 2018 it was published that the external consultants who had developed a restructuring plan were also obliged to implement it, which the opposition in particular saw as a conflict of interest. As a result, Dalić resigned on May 14th of that year, her successor was Darko Horvat .

Individual evidence

1. ↑ https://www.reuters.com/article/us-croatia-politics/croatias-deputy-pm-dalic-resigns-over-agrokor-role-idUSKCN1IF1JP