First Female Prime Minister of Croatia

Date: July 6, 2009 • Location: Rome, Italy

Jadranka Kosor became the first female prime minister of Croatia.

Jadranka Kosor is a Croatian politician and former journalist who served as Prime Minister of Croatia from 2009 to 2011, having taken office following the sudden resignation of her predecessor Ivo Sanader. Kosor was the first and so far only woman to become Prime Minister of Croatia since independence.