Nina Obuljen Koržinek (born 27 May 1970) is a Croatian

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and political scientist serving as Minister of Culture and Media since 2016.

Early life and education

Nina Obuljen Koržinek was born in 1970 in

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, in the family of Nikola Ćićo Obuljen who served as mayor of Dubrovnik from 1993 until 1997. After finishing elementary and high school in her hometown she enrolled in the

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's Academy of Music, from which she graduated

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, and Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, from which she graduated

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and comparative literature. Since 2013, she holds

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in political science from the Faculty of Political Science of the University of Zagreb where she defended her doctoral thesis "Impact of international integration processes on the changes of scope of national cultural policies". In addition, she graduated from the Diplomatic Academy of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Croatia.

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Early life and education

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