Ana Brnabić

Ana Brnabić
Ana Brnabić
Ана Брнабић
	Ana Brnabić in 2018
Prime Minister of Serbia
	Incumbent
	Assumed office ; 29 June 2017
President	Aleksandar Vučić
Deputy	Ivica Dačić
Preceded by	Ivica Dačić (Acting)
Minister of Public Administration and Local Self Government
	In office; 11 August 2016 – 29 June 2017
Prime Minister	Aleksandar Vučić; Ivica Dačić (Acting)
Preceded by	Kori Udovički
Succeeded by	Branko Ružić
Personal details
Born	28 September 1975 (age 48); Belgrade, Yugoslavia; (now Serbia)
Political party	Independent
Alma mater	Northwood University; University of Hull

Ana Brnabić (pronounced [âna bř̩nabit͜ɕ]; born 28 September 1975) is a Serbian politician. She has been the Prime Minister of Serbia since 29 June 2017. She became the first woman and first openly gay person to hold the office.^[1]

She was previously the Minister of Public Administration and Local Self-Government of Serbia^[2] from 11 August 2016 until 29 June 2017, under Prime Minister Aleksandar Vučić and Acting Prime Minister Ivica Dačić.

After Vučić was inaugurated as the President of Serbia on 31 May 2017, he proposed Brnabić as his successor in June.^[3] Her government was voted into office on 29 June 2017 by a majority of 157 out of 250 Members of the National Assembly of Serbia.^[4]

Brnabić is the fifth openly LGBT head of government in Europe and the world (following Jóhanna Sigurðardóttir, Elio Di Rupo, Xavier Bettel and Leo Varadkar), the first openly LGBT head of government in Eastern Europe and the second female LGBT head of government overall.

Ana Brnabić Media

Brnabić alongside Croatian Prime Minister Andrej Plenković, 16 June 2018
Brnabić with Bulgarian President Rumen Radev during his official state visit in Belgrade, 21 June 2018
Brnabić with Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev during his visit to Serbia, 19 October 2019
Brnabić with Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida, 28 September 2022
Brnabić confronted at the 2019 Belgrade Pride parade by a participant holding a sign that says: "Prime Minister, what is it like to live with all the privileges?"

References

↑ Surk, Barbara (2017-06-28). "Serbia Gets Its First Female, and First Openly Gay, Premier" (in en-US). The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331 . https://www.nytimes.com/2017/06/28/world/europe/serbia-ana-brnabic-prime-minister.html. Retrieved 2017-06-30.
↑ Government of Serbia, government makeup
↑ "Ana Brnabić mandatarka za sastav nove Vlade". N1. 15 June 2017. Archived from the original on 13 July 2018. Retrieved 16 June 2017.
↑ The Associated Press (2017-06-29). "Serbia Lawmakers Elect 1st Female and 1st Openly Gay Premier" (in en-US). The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331 . https://www.nytimes.com/aponline/2017/06/29/world/europe/ap-eu-serbia-government.html. Retrieved 2017-06-30.

[1] Surk, Barbara (2017-06-28). "Serbia Gets Its First Female, and First Openly Gay, Premier" (in en-US). The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331 . https://www.nytimes.com/2017/06/28/world/europe/serbia-ana-brnabic-prime-minister.html. Retrieved 2017-06-30.

[2] Government of Serbia, government makeup

[3] "Ana Brnabić mandatarka za sastav nove Vlade". N1. 15 June 2017. Archived from the original on 13 July 2018. Retrieved 16 June 2017.

[4] The Associated Press (2017-06-29). "Serbia Lawmakers Elect 1st Female and 1st Openly Gay Premier" (in en-US). The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331 . https://www.nytimes.com/aponline/2017/06/29/world/europe/ap-eu-serbia-government.html. Retrieved 2017-06-30.

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