Vesna Pusić

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Vesna Pusić (2011)

Vesna Pusić (born March 25, 1953 in Zagreb , Yugoslavia ) is a Croatian sociologist and politician ( Hrvatska narodna stranka - Liberalni democi ) (German Croatian People's Party - Liberal Democrats ).

biography

Vesna Pusić studied sociology at the University of Zagreb and received her doctorate there in 1984 with a thesis on decision-making processes in workers' self-management . Since 1988 she has been a professor of sociology at the University of Zagreb.

At the end of the 1970s she was involved in founding the first feminist group in Yugoslavia Žena i društvo (Woman and Society). In 1990 she was one of the founding members of the left-wing liberal Croatian People's Party and was party chairman from 2000 to 2008. From 2000 to 2011 she was a member of the Croatian Parliament . She ran as a candidate in the presidential election in Croatia in 2009/10 and received 7.25% of the vote in the first ballot.

She was Foreign Minister in Zoran Milanović's cabinet from December 23, 2011 to January 22, 2016 .

At the 11th Party Congress in 2012 , she was elected vice-president of the party alongside Ivan Vrdoljak , and in March 2013 she was appointed as the successor to Radimir Čačić as party leader of the HNS.

Vesna Pusić is the daughter of the legal scholar Eugen Pusić . She is married and has a daughter.

Web links

  • Vesna Prof. DSc Pusić. Biography on the homepage of the Croatian government. Archived from the original on February 17, 2013 ; accessed on February 27, 2016 (English).

supporting documents

  1. ^ Croatian Ministers for Foreign Affairs. Accessed February 27, 2016 .
  2. ↑ Čačić izabran za predsjednika HNS-a. In: hns.hr. March 17, 2012, archived from the original on July 9, 2012 ; accessed on February 27, 2016 (Croatian).
  3. ↑ Pusić elected to the head of the HNS. In: ORF.at . Archived from the original on April 8, 2013 ; accessed on February 27, 2016 .
personal data
SURNAME Pusić, Vesna
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Yugoslav and Croatian sociologist and politician; Foreign Minister of Croatia
DATE OF BIRTH March 25, 1953
PLACE OF BIRTH Zagreb