Ana Brnabić

Ana Brnabić
12th Prime Minister of Serbia
Assumed office
29 June 2017
President Aleksandar Vučić
Deputy Ivica Dačić (First)
Rasim Ljajić
Zorana Mihajlović
Nebojša Stefanović
Preceded by Ivica Dačić (Acting)
Minister of Finance
(Acting)
In office
16 May 2018 – 29 May 2018
Prime Minister Herself
Preceded by Dušan Vujović
Succeeded by Siniša Mali
Minister of Public Administration and Local Self-Government
In office
11 August 2016 – 29 June 2017
Prime Minister Aleksandar Vučić
Ivica Dačić (Acting)
Preceded by Kori Udovički
Succeeded by Branko Ružić
Personal details
Born (1975-09-28) 28 September 1975
Belgrade, Serbia, Yugoslavia
Nationality Serbian
Political party Independent
Alma mater Northwood University
University of Hull

Ana Brnabić (Serbian Cyrillic: Ана Брнабић, pronounced [âna bř̩nabit͜ɕ]; born 28 September 1975) is a Serbian politician who has been the Prime Minister of Serbia since 29 June 2017. She is the first woman and first openly gay person to hold the office.[1]

She was previously the Minister of Public Administration and Local Self-Government of Serbia[2] from 11 August 2016 until 29 June 2017, under Prime Minister Aleksandar Vučić and Acting Prime Minister Ivica Dačić. After Vučić was inaugurated as the President of Serbia on 31 May 2017, he proposed Brnabić as his successor in June.[3]

Her government was voted into office on 29 June 2017 by a majority of 157 out of 250 Members of the National Assembly of Serbia.

Early and personal life

Brnabić was born in Belgrade. Her paternal grandfather Anton Brnabić (ethnic Croat), a Yugoslav military officer, was born in Stara Baška on Krk (present-day Republic of Croatia). He fought with the Yugoslav Partisans during World War II and was ranked lieutenant colonel (potpukovnik) after the war. Her paternal grandmother Mica was born in Gorobilje near Požega (in Serbia). Her maternal grandparents are from Babušnica, southeastern Serbia. Her father Zoran was born in Užice in 1950 and finished his studies in Belgrade, where the family lived.[4]

Brnabić is gay, and lists as the fifth openly LGBT head of government in the world following Jóhanna Sigurðardóttir, Prime Minister of Iceland from 2009-13, Elio Di Rupo, Prime Minister of Belgium from 2011-14, Xavier Bettel, Prime Minister of Luxembourg since 2013, and the second female LGBT head of government overall following Jóhanna Sigurðardóttir. In 2017, she became the first head of government of any Balkan country to attend a gay pride march attending one in Belgrade.[5]

She is an atheist.

Education and business career

Brnabić holds an MBA diploma of the University of Hull and has been working over ten years with international organizations, foreign investors, local self-government units, and the public sector in Serbia.

Prior to the appointment to the Government of Serbia, she had been the Director of the company Continental Wind Serbia – CWS where she had worked in the implementation of the investment of EUR 300 million in the wind park in the municipality of Kovin. She participated in the foundation and was the first executive director, as well as a member of the Managing Board of the non-profit foundation Peksim.

She has been engaged in different US consulting companies that implemented USAID-financed projects in Serbia. She was deputy manager of the Serbia's Competitiveness Project, the expert on the Local self-government Reform Program in Serbia and the senior coordinator of the Program of Economic Development of Municipalities. She actively participated in the foundation of the National Alliance for Local Economic Development (NALED) in 2006.

She made great efforts to build capacities of NALED for representation of interests of the business sector, local self-government units and the civil society in Serbia. During that engagement, she participated in the introduction of the concept of local economic development in Serbia and building of potentials of municipalities to improve the business environment at the local level with active promotion of investments. She became a member, and thereafter the President of the Managing Board of NALED.

Politics

Brnabić with Macedonian Prime Minister Zoran Zaev during a meeting of Balkan leaders held in Durrës
Brnabić with Petro Poroshenko in 2018

In August 2016, she was appointed as the Minister of Public Administration and Local Self-Government. In addition, she is the President of the Council for Innovative Entrepreneurship and Information Technologies of the Government of Serbia, as well as of the Republic Council for National Minorities and the Vice President of the Republic Council for Public Administration Reform.

In May 2018, Brnabić took over the Ministry of Finance until the new Minister was appointed, following the resignation of Dušan Vujović.[6] On 29 May 2018, she appointed Siniša Mali as Vujović's successor on that position.[7]

Awards

She has been awarded numerous plaudits for the development projects on which she worked, for the promotion of socially accountable business operation and tolerance.[8]

See also

References

  1. ↑ Surk, Barbara (28 June 2017). "Serbia Gets Its First Female, and First Openly Gay, Premier". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 30 June 2017.
  2. ↑ "Потпредседници и министри". www.srbija.gov.rs. Retrieved 30 June 2017.
  3. ↑ "Ana Brnabić mandatarka za sastav nove Vlade". N1. 15 June 2017. Retrieved 16 June 2017.
  4. ↑ ""MOJ DEDA JE HRVAT, JA SAM SRPKINJA" Ovo je porodični "rodoslov" Ane Brnabić" (in Serbian). Blic. Retrieved 17 May 2018.
  5. ↑ "Serbia's gay PM is first in region to attend pride parade". bbc.com. Retrieved 17 May 2018.
  6. ↑ "Brnabićeva ministar finansija, do imenovanja novog". b92.net (in Serbian). Tanjug. 16 May 2018. Retrieved 16 May 2018.
  7. ↑ "Mali izabran za ministra finansija". b92.net (in Serbian). Beta. 29 May 2018. Retrieved 29 May 2018.
  8. ↑ "Министар". www.mduls.gov.rs. Retrieved 30 June 2017.
Political offices
Preceded by
Kori Udovički		 Minister of Public Administration and Local Self-Government
2016–2017		 Succeeded by
Branko Ružić
Preceded by
Ivica Dačić
(Acting)		 Prime Minister of Serbia
2017–present		 Incumbent
Preceded by
Dušan Vujović		 Minister of Finance (Acting)
2018		 Succeeded by
Siniša Mali
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