Sanda Rašković Ivić | |
Native Name Lang: | sr-Cyrl |
Order: | President of the Democratic Party of Serbia |
Term Start: | 12 October 2014 |
Term End: | 2 August 2016 |
Predecessor: | Aleksandar Popović (acting) |
Office1: | Serbian ambassador to Italy |
Term Start1: | 2008 |
Term End1: | 2011 |
Birth Date: | 8 January 1956 |
Birth Name: | Sanda Rašković |
Birth Place: | Zagreb, PR Croatia, FPR Yugoslavia |
Alma Mater: | University of Zagreb University of Belgrade |
Profession: | Psychiatrist |
Children: | 3 |
Father: | Jovan Rašković |
Mother: | Tanja Stipišić |
Nationality: | Serbian |
Sanda Rašković Ivić (Serbian: Санда Рашковић Ивић, pronounced as /sânda râʃkoʋit͡ɕ ǐːʋit͡ɕ/; born 8 January 1956) is a Serbian former politician,[1] psychiatrist, psychotherapist and politician. She was the president of the Democratic Party of Serbia from 2014 to 2016. She has served as one of the vice-presidents of the People's Party since 2017 and is currently serving as a member of the National Assembly of Serbia.
She was previously a commissioner for refugees, the president of Coordination Center for Kosovo and Metohija, and Serbian ambassador to Italy
She is a daughter of doctors Jovan Rašković and Tanja Stipišić. She is of paternal Serb descent, and maternal Croat and Italian descent.[2] Her maternal grandmother was from Trieste.[3] She finished primary and high school in Šibenik and the School of Medicine of the University of Zagreb in 1980. She passed her examination for psychiatrist in 1986. Sanda is the author of many technical papers of psychiatry and psychotherapy.