Vesna Cvjetković, Ph.D.
Ambassador of the Republic of Croatia to the Republic of Austria
Date and Place of Birth: 26 November 1954 in Dubrovnik, Croatia
Married, one child
Work experience:
2012 – 2015
Secretary General of the Ministry of Foreign and European Affairs of the Republic of Croatia
2008 – 2012
Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Republic of Croatia to the Hellenic Republic, Athens (accredited to Georgia and Armenia)
2003 – 2008
Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Republic of Croatia to the Federal Republic of Germany, Berlin
2000 – 2003
Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Croatia
1985 – 2000
Assistant, research assistant, assistant professor at the Faculty of Philosophy of the University of Zagreb
1980 – 1985
Head of the Archives and the Museum of the Croatian National Theatre in Zagreb; Editor of all the publications of the Croatian National Theatre
1997 – 2000
Editor of the periodical “Lawyer” (Croatian Bar Association)
1993-1997
Counsellor of the Friedrich Naumann Foundation for the Republic of Croatia
1974 – 1980
Lecturer at the Volkshochschule in Vienna
1974 – 1979
Language editor for the Dubrovnik Summer Festival
Education and training:
1997
Doctor of Philosophy, Ph. D.
Faculty of Philosophy, University of Zagreb
1987 - 1989
Master of Philology, Mag. Phil.
Postgraduate Studies in General Linguistics
Faculty of Philosophy, University of Zagreb
1973 - 1980
Doctor of Philosophy, Ph. D.
Faculty of Philosophy, Vienna University, Austria
1961 - 1972
Primary and secondary school education, Athens, Greece
Mother tongue:
Croatian
Other languages:
German/English/Modern Greek (proficient speaker), French and Italian (independent speaker)
Awards:
Order of Merit-Grand Cross of the Federal Republic of Germany
Commander of the Order of Honour of the Hellenic Republic
Merits:
Author of numerous scientific and professional papers in philology, theatrology, linguistics, history, politics, dictionaries and translations. Published author in Modern Greek, English and German.
