Ivana Stojiljković
Ivana Stojiljković (Serbian Cyrillic: Ивана Стојиљковић; born 1981) is a Serbian politician. She served in the National Assembly of Serbia from 2014 to 2018 as a representative of the Serbian Progressive Party.
Early life and career
[edit]Stojiljković was born in Pula, in what was then the Socialist Republic of Croatia in the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia. She moved to Užice, Serbia, as a child and was raised in that community. She earned a bachelor's degree in civil engineering from the University of Belgrade and has subsequently been a leading engineer and urbanist with Užice's construction directorate. In 2010, she became president of the Environmental Protection Council and the Zlatibor District Urban Planning Council.
Stojiljković has also worked as a journalist in local media and is a member of the Serbian branch of Mensa International.[1]
Political career
[edit]Stojiljković joined the Progressive Party in 2010. In 2013, she was appointed to leadership positions in the party in Užice and the Zlatibor District.[2]
She was given the thirty-ninth position on the Progressive Party's Aleksandar Vučić — Future We Believe In electoral list for the 2014 Serbian parliamentary election and was elected when the list won 158 out of 250 mandates.[3] She was promoted to twenty-first on the successor Aleksandar Vučić — Serbia is Winning list for the 2016 parliamentary election and was re-elected when the list won 131 mandates.[4]
During her second term, Stojiljković was chair of the assembly's environmental protection committee; a member of the committee on spatial planning, transport, infrastructure, and telecommunications; a deputy member of the defence and internal affairs committee; and the deputy chair of a commission set up to "Investigate the Consequences of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) 1999 Bombing on the Health of the Citizens of Serbia, as well as the Environment, with a Special Focus on the Impact of the Depleted Uranium Projectiles."[5] She was also the head of Serbia's parliamentary friendship group with India and a member of parliamentary friendship groups with Belarus, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, China, Cuba, Germany, Greece, Indonesia, Italy, Kazakhstan, Russia, Spain, and the United States of America.[6]
In March 2018, Stojiljković thanked India's ambassador to Serbia for what she described as "India's principled stand on the territorial integrity and sovereignty of Serbia."[7]
She resigned from the National Assembly on 24 December 2018 and is now Serbia's consul-general in Trieste, Italy.[8][9]
References
[edit]- ^ IVANA STOJILJKOVIĆ, Otvoreni Parlament, accessed 28 June 2018.
- ^ IVANA STOJILJKOVIĆ, Otvoreni Parlament, accessed 28 June 2018.
- ^ Избори за народне посланике Народне скупштине одржани 16. и 23. марта 2014. године, ИЗБОРНЕ ЛИСТЕ (ALEKSANDAR VUČIĆ - BUDUĆNOST U KOJU VERUJEMO) Archived 2018-05-06 at the Wayback Machine, Republika Srbija - Republička izborna komisija, accessed 26 January 2017.
- ^ Избори за народне посланике 2016. године » Изборне листе (АЛЕКСАНДАР ВУЧИЋ - СРБИЈА ПОБЕЂУЈЕ) Archived 2018-04-27 at the Wayback Machine, Republika Srbija - Republička izborna komisija, accessed 17 February 2017.
- ^ "Laketić: Prva lokacija opština Vranje, ići ćemo i na KiM", Politika, 23 May 2018, accessed 28 June 2018.
- ^ IVANA STOJILjKOVIC, National Assembly of Serbia, accessed 28 June 2018.
- ^ "Ambassador meets with Members of Parliamentary Friendship Group with India", Embassy of India (Belgrade), press release, 28 March 2018.
- ^ Current Legislature, National Assembly of the Republic of Serbia, accessed 15 February 2019.
- ^ "Srpska ne zaboravlja dijasporu", Vesti, 14 February 2019, accessed 15 February 2019.