Croatian President Kolinda Grabar Kitarović Biography

Croatian President Kolinda Grabar-Kitarović was born 29 April 1968 in Rijeka of former Yugoslavia (Now Croatia). She is daughter of Dubravka and Branko Grabar. Her family owned a butcher shop and a ranch. She was a bright student and was selected for a student exchange program when she was 17. She moved to Los Alamos, New Mexico, subsequently graduating from Los Alamos High School in 1986. After high school she enrolled at the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Zagreb from where she graduated in 1992 with a Bachelor of Arts in English and Spanish languages and literature.
Grabar-Kitarović has been married to Jakov Kitarović since 1996 and they have two children: Katarina (born on 23 April 2001) who is a professional figure skater and Croatia's national junior champion and Luka (born on 2003).
Grabar-Kitarović is a practising Roman Catholic and declares her adherence to traditional Christian values.
In an interview for Narodni radio Grabar-Kitarović stated that her favorite singer was Croatian nationalist singer Marko Perković who has been accused of promoting extreme nationalism. She speaks Croatian, English, Spanish and Portuguese fluently and has basic understanding of German, French and Italian.
In the 2018 FIFA World Cup held in Russia, Grabar-Kitarović attended the quarter-final and final, wearing the country flag colors in support of the national team which finished as tournament runners-up.
Kolinda Grabar-Kitarović is a Croatian politician and diplomat serving as the 4th and current President of Croatia since 2015. She is the first woman to be elected to the office since the first multi-party elections in 1990. At 46 years of age, she also became the youngest person to assume the presidency. Before her election as President of Croatia, Grabar-Kitarović held a number of governmental and diplomatic positions. She was Minister of European Affairsfrom 2003 to 2005, the first female Minister of Foreign Affairs and European Integration from 2005 to 2008 in both the first and second cabinets of Ivo Sanader, Croatian Ambassador to the United States from 2008 to 2011 and Assistant Secretary General for Public Diplomacy at NATO from 2011 to 2014. In 2017, Forbes magazine listed Grabar-Kitarović as the world's 39th most powerful woman.
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