Life events

Karolina Grabar-Kitarović
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Kolinda Grabar-Kitarović is a Croatian politician and diplomat who served
as President of Croatia from 2015 to 2020. She was the first woman to be
elected to the office since the first multi-party elections in 1990 and
independence in 1991. At 46 years of age, she also became the youngest person
to assume the presidency.
 Her childhood
• Kolinda Grabar was born on 29 April 1968 in Rijeka, Croatia, then
part of Yugoslavia, to Dubravka. She was raised mainly in her
parents' village of Lopača, just north of Rijeka, where the family
owned a butcher shop and a ranch.As a high school student, she
entered a student exchange program and at 17 moved to Los Alamos,
New Mexico, subsequently graduating from Los Alamos High
School in 1986.
 Career (1)
• In 1992, Grabar-Kitarović became an advisor to the international
cooperation department of the Ministry of Science and Technology.
• In 1993 ,she transferred to the Foreign ministry, becoming an advisor.
 Career (2)
• She was elected to the Croatian Parliament from the seventh electoral
district as a member of the Croatian Democratic Union in the 2003
parliamentary elections
• On 18 January 2005, she became head of the State Delegation for
Negotiations on the Croatian accession to the European Union.
• On 8 March 2008, she became the Croatian ambassador to the United
States.
 Career (3)
• In 2011 Grabar-Kitarovic became assistant secretary general of NATO for Public
Diplomacy
• Her task was to take care of the "communication strategy" and to "bring NATO
closer to the common people". Her colleagues at NATO often referred to her as
SWAMBO (She Who Must Be Obeyed) Grabar-Kitarović was the first woman ever
to be appointed to the position. She served as assistant secretary general in NATO
until 2 October 2014.

• She was invited to join the Trilateral Commission and became an official member in
April 2013.
 Grabar – Kitoravic during FIFA World
Cup 2018
• During the 2018 FIFA World Cup, held in Russia Grabar – Kitoravic attended the
quarter-final and final matches, wearing the colors of the national flag in support of
the national team, which ultimately ended up as tournament runners-up.
 Grabar – Kitoravic during FIFA World
Cup 2018
• Croatian President Kolinda Grabar-Kitarovic has
won many admirers for own performance at the
World Cup final in Moscow, where she stood in
driving rain at the closing ceremony, smiled and
hugged every player from both teams.
Grabar – Kitoravic during FIFA World
Cup 2018