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Not long ago, the Serbian government was made up mainly of men. Now we can boast that there are up to 11 women sitting in Nemanjina, with one leading the way. Therefore, these ladies deserved to be on the traditional “Blic” list of the 100 most powerful women in Serbia.
The new government of Serbia has 10 ministers and a prime minister, and according to that, it is one of the “with gender equality”. Now women manage the economy, mining and energy, ecology, human and minority rights …
The last few weeks have been the center of public attention, while awaiting a decision on the composition of the new government. Now they have taken over their departments and started running the ministries at full speed.
11 of them were on the list of the 100 most powerful women in Serbia for 2020.
This year, the Prime Minister of Serbia also tops our list. Ana Brnabić. After the first term that President Vučić gave him in 2017, as a non-party person, three years later he got another, but this time as a member of the Serbian Progressive Party.
She is the first woman to serve as Prime Minister of Serbia and the first publicly declared homosexual in that position. It is mainly engaged in digitization and faster systemic introduction of e-government in Serbia, in order to work more efficiently in state administration and local self-government. Recently, after signing the decree with the name of the new prime minister, Vučić pointed out that Ana Brnabić is someone who served Serbia with fidelity and fidelity, plus she has all his confidence, and said that the results behind the prime minister are mainly economical.
Ana Brnabić lives in an extramarital union with her partner Milica Đurđić, with whom she has a two-year-old son.
Among the Top 10 on our list of most powerful women is Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Mining and Energy Zorana Mihajlovic, in sixth place. She has been head of the Ministry of Construction, Transport and Infrastructure since 2014, and among the main results in this department are 350 km of roads built for her, the complete Corredor 10 highway and the Belgrade to Cacak highway completed and open to traffic. Likewise, more than 550 kilometers of railways have been rebuilt, construction of the Belgrade-Budapest high-speed railway has begun, the airport network today includes three international airports and investments in water transport have been initiated for more than 400 million euros .
She has been the Chairperson of the Government Coordinating Body for Gender Equality since its establishment in 2014, as well as the Joint Government Group to Improve Serbia’s Position on the World Bank’s Doing Business list, where Serbia advanced from 186th to 9th. in the field of building permits. the world.
The new face on the “Blic” list is the new Minister of Economy Andjelka Atanaskovic, in seventh place. With his election to the post, the new Serbian government secured a member who spent his entire working life in a company.
That is, immediately after graduation, Andjelka Atanasković got a job at the “Prva petoletka – namenska” factory in Trstenik, where she was the controlling director for a time. Since 2014, she has been the Managing Director of PPT ‘Namenska’ in Trstenik, and was named the best manager in Southeast Europe in 2016, and the Woman of the Year in the region.
Another new name on our list, but a well-known figure in recent months, is the Minister of Labor, Employment, Veterans and Social Affairs. Darija Kisić Tepavčević. She came into the spotlight during the corona virus epidemic when, as deputy director of public health and population policy at the Institute “Milan Jovanović Batut” and a member of the crisis staff, she informed the public about new measures, medical care …
He was entrusted with one of the leading roles during the smallpox epidemic that affected Serbia during 2017 and 2018. In his career so far, he has published more than 120 scientific articles in national and international journals.
The Minister of Environmental Protection is also in the Top 10 of our list Irena Vujović, in ninth place. She came to the new position from the position of president of the municipality of Savski Venac in Belgrade.
In two terms, she was elected a Member of Parliament in the Assembly of the Republic of Serbia (2012 and 2014), and from 2014 to 2016 she served as Assistant Mayor of Belgrade. From 2005 to 2008 she was a cooperation coordinator in the Department of International Cooperation at John Nesbit University, and it is interesting that she was an associate professor in Contemporary Russian Economics and Post-Soviet Space Economics.
Number 11 was taken over by the former Speaker of the Serbian Assembly, and now Minister of Culture and Information Maja Gojković. She is one of the most trusted associates of the President of Serbia, Aleksandar Vučić, and for the past six years has been at the head of the National Assembly.
She was mayor of Novi Sad from 2004 to 2008. She changed several parties, for which she was a member of the Veljko Guberina People’s Radical Party, which later merged with the Serbian Radical Party. She was expelled from the SRS in 2008 and later founded the Popular Party. After the 2012 elections, he supported the SNS-SPS-URS government.
In 12th place is the vice president of the Serbian Progressive Party. Marija Obradović, which in the new Government is in charge of the department of state administration and local self-government. The SNS deputy had four terms and, for the first time after the 2012 elections, before her participation in the party, she devoted herself to journalism.
She is the first woman to chair the Parliamentary Committee on Defense and Home Affairs and the founder of the Parliamentary Network of Women in the Serbian Parliament.
The Minister of European Integration was ranked 16th on our list Jadranka Joksimović. He was born in Belgrade, where he graduated as a student of the generation at the Faculty of Political Science.
She was first elected Minister without a Portfolio in charge of European Integration in 2014 and re-elected in 2016. With the formation of the Ministry of European Integration in 2017, she was elected Minister of European Integration. He is a member of the Presidency and of the Main Council of the SNS.
Among the top 20 is the new Minister of Justice. Maja Popović who graduated from the Faculty of Law, studied and trained abroad, worked in law and at the age of 26 was a judge of the First Municipal Court of Belgrade, the youngest elected in our country.
During her service at the BIA, she worked in the Directorate of International Cooperation, the Directorate of Human Resources, Systemic Legal, Property and Housing, and later was the office head of the director of the Security Information Agency (BIA).
The nineteenth place went to the Minister of Commerce, Tourism and Telecommunications. Tatjana Matić She was born in Belgrade, where she finished primary and secondary school, then the Faculty of Philology, where she acquired the title of teacher of Serbian language and literature.
She served as Deputy Chief of Staff of the Deputy Prime Minister of the Republic of Serbia and of the Coordination Center of the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia and the Republika Srpska for Kosovo and Metohija. From 2005 to 2007 she was director of the Coordinating Body of the municipalities of Presevo, Bujanovac and Medvedja, and then until 2012 she was secretary of the Ministry of Labor and Social Policy. In July 2012, she was appointed Secretary of State of the Ministry of Foreign and Interior Trade and Telecommunications.
Only the Minister of Human and Minority Rights and Social Dialogue was among the top 20 Gordana Čomić. He is 55th on our list and his election to the new Serbian Government was one of the surprises.
He was born in Novi Sad and during the 1990s he was a spokesperson for the Municipal and Provincial Committee of the Vojvodina Democratic Party. She was president of the Provincial Board of DS, vice president of DS from 2001 to 2004. In June 2018, she was a candidate for the presidency of DS, when Zoran Lutovac was elected, and Comic left the DS.
Criteria that guided us when choosing:
– Financial and political influence
– Recognition in public
– Personal authority and the authority of the institution they represent.
– Personal charisma
– Ease of achieving goals
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