Kolinda Grabar-Kitarović (DOB April 29,1968)contested the presidential election held in December 2014 and January 2015 as the only female candidate (out of four in total), finishing as the runner-up in the first round and thereafter proceeding to narrowly defeat incumbent President Ivo Josipovic in the second round.
In the second round Grabar-Kitarović defeated Josipović by the closest percentage margin of any presidential election to date (1,48%) and received the smallest number of votes of any elected president in Croatia (1.114 million votes).
Before her election as president, Grabar-Kitarović held a number of governmental and diplomatic positions.
- Minister of European Affairs from 2003 to 2005
- 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 under Secretaries-General Anders Fogh Rasmussen and Jens Stoltenberg from 2011 to 2014
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