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Croatian politician, third President of Croatia

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Ivo Josipović is a Croatian politician who served as the third President of Croatia. He is notable as a significant figure in Croatia's political history during a key period of the country's development.

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Gender
Male
Origin
Croatia
Active from
1957

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Ivo Josipović was the president of Croatia, a university professor, legal expert, musician and composer born on August 28, 1957 in Zagreb, Croatia. After attending a secondary music school, he continued his music education in the Composition Department of the Zagreb Music Academy under the tutelage of renowned scholar Stanko Horvat. He graduated in 1983, majoring in composition.From 1987 to 2004 he was a lecturer at the same Music Academy. He has written some 50 compositions for different inst

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Ivo
Family name
Josipović
Gender
male
Citizenship
Croatia
Place of birth
Zagreb
Occupation
lawyer
Languages spoken
Croatian
Religion
agnosticism
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Ivo Josipović
date of birth
1957-08-28
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Ivo Josipović
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Ivo Josipović ( pronounced [ǐːʋo josǐːpoʋitɕ] ; born 28 August 1957) is a Croatian academic, jurist, composer, and politician who served as the president of Croatia from 2010 to 2015.

Josipović entered politics as a member of the League of Communists of Yugoslavia (SKJ), and played a key role in the democratic transformation of the League of Communists of Croatia (SKH) into the Social Democratic Party (SDP) as the author of its first statute. He left politics in 1994, but returned in 2003, winning a seat in the Croatian Parliament running as an independent candidate on the SDP party list. He won re-election to parliament as a member of the SDP in 2007. In addition to politics, Josipović has also worked as a university professor, legal expert, musician and composer, and holds a Ph.D. in Law and advanced degrees in music composition.

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