Dragan Maršićanin | |
Office: | President of the National Assembly of Serbia |
Term Start: | 22 January 2001 |
Term End: | 6 December 2001 |
Predecessor: | Dragan Tomić |
Successor: | Nataša Mićić |
Term Start1: | 4 February 2004 |
Term End1: | 3 March 2004 |
Predecessor1: | Nataša Mićić |
Successor1: | Predrag Marković |
Office2: | President of Serbia |
Status2: | Acting |
Primeminister2: | Zoran Živković |
Term Start2: | 4 February 2004 |
Term End2: | 3 March 2004 |
Predecessor2: | Nataša Mićić (acting) |
Successor2: | Vojislav Mihailović (acting) |
Office3: | Minister of Economy |
Term Start3: | 3 March 2004 |
Term End3: | 10 May 2004 |
Predecessor3: | Office established |
Successor3: | Zora Simović (acting) Predrag Bubalo |
Office4: | Serbian Ambassador to Switzerland |
Term Start4: | 4 July 2004 |
Term End4: | 27 January 2009 |
Successor4: | Milan St. Protić |
Birth Date: | 26 January 1950 |
Birth Place: | Belgrade, PR Serbia, FPR Yugoslavia |
Party: | DS (1990–1992) DSS/NDSS (1992–present) |
Occupation: | Politician |
Profession: | Economist |
Native Name Lang: | sr |
Dragan Maršićanin (Serbian: Драган Маршићанин; born 26 January 1950) is a Serbian economist and politician. He was the ambassador of Serbia to Switzerland from 2004 to 2009. He served as the Minister of Economy in 2004, only to leave it in order to run for president in 2004. He later resigned from the position and was replaced by Predrag Bubalo in October 2004.
In the 2004 Serbian presidential election Maršićanin finished 4th with 13.3% of the vote.[1]
He was the President of the National Assembly of Serbia in 2001 and in 2004,[2] [3] and the interim acting President of Serbia between 4 February and 3 March 2004.
Maršićanin graduated from the University of Belgrade Faculty of Economics.[4] Following university studies, he worked for companies such as Elektron, Novi Kolektiv and Belgrade Water Utility Company. He has been a member of the Democratic Party of Serbia since the party's founding. For a time he was the secretary of party, and currently is its vice-president. He served as chairman of Vračar municipality in Belgrade until 1996.