Berry Vrbanovic (born August 19, 1966) is a

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politician who has served as

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of Kitchener,

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since the 2014 municipal election. Berry attended St. Jerome's High School, and graduated from

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with a BA in Political Science and a diploma in Business Administration. Prior to entering municipal politics, he worked in Kitchener's clerk's office and the information technology division. Prior to his election to the mayoralty in 2014, he represented Ward 2 as a city councillor on

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from 1994 to 2014. He ran as an

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candidate in

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in the 1999 provincial election, losing to Wayne Wettlaufer.

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Mayor Berry Vrbanovic

Kitchener City Council
1966 births Living people Mayors of Kitchener, Ontario Ontario Liberal Party candidates in Ontario provincial elections Croatian emigrants to Canada {{Ontario-mayor-stub