Kolinda Grabar-Kitarović - Presiden Kroasia

Kolinda Grabar-Kitarović (lahir di Rijeka, 29 April 1968; umur 50 tahun) adalah seorang politikus Kroasia yang menjabat sebagai Presiden Kroasia sejak Februari 2015. Dari 2011-2014 ia menjabat sebagai Asisten Sekretaris Jenderal Diplomasi Publik di NATO di bawah sekretaris Anders Fogh Rasmussen dan Jens Stoltenberg. Dia adalah wanita pertama yang ditunjuk untuk posisi tersebut. Sebelumnya, dia adalah Menteri Luar Negeri Kroasia dari 2005 sampai 2008 di Kabinet Ivo Sanader I, dan Duta Besar Kroasia untuk Amerika Serikat dari tahun 2008 sampai 2011. Grabar-Kitarović telah menjadi anggota dari partai konservatif Uni Demokratik Kroasia dari tahun 1993 sampai dengan tahun 2015 dan menjadi salah satu dari tiga anggota Komisi Trilateral Kroasia. Dia harus mengundurkan diri dari kedua posisi itu karena menjabat Presiden Kroasia.

Kolinda Grabar-Kitarović (pronounced [ɡrǎbar kitǎːroʋitɕ] (About this sound listen); born 29 April 1968) 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 Affairs from 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 under Secretaries General Anders Fogh Rasmussen and Jens Stoltenberg from 2011 to 2014.

Grabar-Kitarović 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 Josipović in the second round. Her strong performance in the first round was widely viewed as unexpected, as most opinion polls had given incumbent president Josipović a strong lead and some even showed it was possible that he would win outright by acquiring more than 50% of the vote. 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). Furthermore, as the country had previously also had a female Prime Minister, Jadranka Kosor, from 2009 until 2011, Grabar-Kitarović's election as President of Croatia also included it into a small group of parliamentary republics which have had both a female head of state and head of government.

Grabar-Kitarović was a member of the conservative Croatian Democratic Union party from 1993 to 2015 and was also one of three Croatian members of the Trilateral Commission, but she was required to resign both positions upon taking office as president in 2015, as Croatian Presidents are not permitted to hold other political positions or party membership while in office. In 2017, Forbes magazine listed Grabar-Kitarović as the world's 39th most powerful woman.