Tomislav Ćorić (born 17 November 1979) is a Croatian politician. In 2016 after the victory of the HDZ-led coalition in the

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, Ćorić began representing the Ministry of Labour and Pension System in the first cabinet of

Andrej Plenković Andrej Plenković ( ; born 8 April 1970) is a Croatian politician serving as the Prime Minister of Croatia, prime minister of Croatia since October 2016. He was previously one of eleven List of members of the European Parliament for Croatia, 201 ...

. In 2017, he became the Minister of Environmental Protection and Energy. Ćorić focused on the waste management system during his time, investing more money into the systems. However, he drew controversy for sending Croatian oil for processing to a Hungarian refinery instead of the Rijeka refinery. He was also accused of being friends with people with corruption charges like Josipa Rimac and Dragan Kovačević. In 2020, he left the role of Minister of Environmental Protection and began representing the

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until 2022 when he was succeeded by Davor Filipović. During the start of the

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, Ćorić started leading the newly-created Gas Crisis Team to organize Croatia's gas supply and distribution, although the team stopped meeting in 2023. In May 2022, after his term as Minister of Economy, he was proposed as Vice Governor of the

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. He was confirmed as Vice Governor of the bank on 27 May 2022 by the

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, where he is in charge of multiple different offices. He is also a member of the Board of Supervisors of the

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Early life

Ćorić was born on 17 November 1979 in

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. In 2003 he graduated as a

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from the Faculty of Economics at the

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. He later earned his master's in 2007 and his PhD in 2011 from the same university, both in economics.

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Early life

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