Boris Lalovac (born 16 November 1976) is a Croatian economist and politician who served as the 10th

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in the center-left

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from 14 May 2014 until 22 January 2016. Lalovac is a member of the

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and serves as one of four party vice-presidents since December 2016. He has been elected to the

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and

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parliamentary elections, both times representing the 10th electoral district.

Early life and education

Boris Lalovac was born on 16 November 1976 in

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to professor Obrad and homemaker Jasminka Lalovac. His father is active in local politics having served as SDP's municipal councilor in Gradac and member of the SDP's Split County Organization. After finishing elementary and high school in his hometown, Lalovac enrolled at the Faculty of Tourism and Foreign Trade of the

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from which he graduated in year 2000. He gained his masters's degree at the Zagreb Faculty of Economics and Business in year 2006. From 2005 until 2006, he attended seminar ''"Basics of Credit Analysis"'' and in 2007 seminar ''"Finance, controlling, accounting, management"'', both organised by the Austrian Raiffeisen Bankengruppe.

Career

After graduation, Lalovac first worked as finance associate at a joint-stock company ''Auto-Hrvatska'' in

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. In 2002, he got employed as assistant lecturer on the payments course at the ''Split Faculty of Economics and Business''. He worked on that position until 2007. From 2003 until 2004, Lalovac worked as deputy head of controlling at a limited liability company ''Karbon-Nova'' in

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. Between 2005 and 2011, he worked at the ''Raiffeisen Leasing'' as manager of ''Accounting, Finance and Reporting department''. In 2008, Lalovac got employed as teacher at the

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, and in 2010 at the College of Finance and law Effectus teaching courses "Analysis of the financial statements", the "Financial Control and Audit" and "Controlling". He still holds both positions. In 2012, he was named deputy minister of finance in the center-left

, and in 2014

succeeding

Slavko Linić Slavko Linić (born 19 September 1949) is a Croatian politician and economist. He is a graduate of the Faculty of Economics on the University of Rijeka. From 1990 to 2000, he was the Mayor of Rijeka. From 2000 to 2003 he served as Deputy Prime M ...

. Afterwards, he was elected to the

and

parliamentary elections, representing the 10th electoral district.

Personal life

Boris Lalovac is married to Tončika Anastasia Lalovac who is a

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, and a member of the conservative

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party. In January 2017, she accused him of verbal and physical harassment, after which he temporarily withdrew from public life. In April 2017, State's Attorney Office rejected all criminal charges filed against him as unfounded. He returned to politics.

References

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