Prime Minister Andrej Plenković Nationality Croatian Education University of Zagreb | Preceded by Zlatko Hasanbegović Political party None Parents Nikola Ćićo Obuljen | |
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President Kolinda Grabar-Kitarović | ||
Nina Obuljen Koržinek (born 1970) is a Croatian violinist and political scientist who serves as the Minister of Culture in the Cabinet of Andrej Plenković since 19 November 2016.
Early life and education
Nina Obuljen Koržinek was born in 1970 in Dubrovnik in the family of Nikola Ćićo Obuljen who served as the mayor of Dubrovnik from 1993 until 1997. After finishing elementary and high school in her hometown she enrolled in the University of Zagreb's Academy of Music, from which she graduated violin, and Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, from which she graduated French language and comparative literature. Since 2013, she holds Ph.D. in political science from the Faculty of Political Science of the University of Zagreb where she defended her doctoral thesis “Impact of international integration processes on the changes of scope of national cultural policies”. In addition, she graduated from the Diplomatic Academy of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Croatia.
