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Ivo Josipović (born 28 August 1957) is the current President-elect of Croatia. In addition to politics, he has also worked as a university professor, legal expert, musician and composer. He serves as a member of the Croatian Parliament for the Social Democratic Party of Croatia (SDP).

On 27 December 2009 Josipović won more votes than his 11 rivals (32.4%). He did not, however, secure the absolute majority necessary to secure an outright victory. On 10 January 2010, he faced the independent candidate Milan Bandić in a run-off. Bandić secured 14.8% of the votes in the first round, to finish second in a field of twelve candidates.

Ivo Josipović went from being almost unknown to the general public in Croatia to winning the most votes during the elections. He is campaigning for Nova Pravednost (New Justice), calling for a new social and legal framework to address the deep social injustices, corruption and organised crime which mark the country today. This includes the protection of individual rights and the promotion of such fundamental values as equality, human rights, justice, diligence, social empathy and creativity.

He is married to Tatjana, who is a civil law professor and legal expert. They have one daughter, Lana (born c. 1991).

Life, education and professional career

Ivo Josipović's parents are originally from Baška Voda in Dalmatia. Josipović, however, was born in Zagreb, where he also attended both primary school and a secondary music school. As a teenager he was a promising football player.

Law

Ivo Josipović attended the Faculty of Law of the University of Zagreb, from which he graduated in 1980 and passed his bar examination. He completed his M.A. in criminal law in 1985 and his Ph.D. in criminal sciences in 1994. He began as a lecturer at the same law faculty in 1984, and has since become a Professor for criminal procedure law, international crime law and misdemeanour law.

Josipović has been a visiting researcher at a number of prestigious institutes including the Max Planck Institute for Foreign and International Criminal Law in Freiburg in Breisgau, Germany, the Institute for Criminal Law of the University of Graz, Austria, as well as the HEUNI Institute (European Institute for Crime Prevention and Control) in Helsinki, Finland. He has also spent time as a private researcher at the Max Planck Institute for Foreign and Private International Law in Hamburg, Germany and Yale University in the USA. He is a member of several domestic and international legal and artists' associations and has published over 85 academic and professional papers in domestic and international journals.

In 1994, he co-founded the independent Hrvatski pravni centar (Croatian Law Center).

Josipović helped save 180 Croatian prisoners of war from Serbian concentration camps and has represented Croatia before the International Court of Justice (ICJ) and the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY). He has participated in several international projects and acted as a Council of Europe expert in the evaluation of prisons in the Ukraine, Mongolia and Azerbaijan.

Music

After attending a secondary music school, he continued his music education in the Composition Department of the Zagreb Music Academy under the tutelage of renowned scholar Stanko Horvat. He graduated in 1983, majoring in composition. From 1987 to 2004 he was a lecturer at the same Music Academy.

He has written some 50 compositions for different instruments, chamber orchestras and the symphony orchestra. In 1985, he received a first prize from the European Broadcasting Union for his composition "Samba da Camera". In 1999, he was awarded the Porin award for the same composition, followed by the Porin award in 2000 for "Tisuću lotosa" (A Thousand Lotuses). His most successful pieces also include "Igra staklenih perli" (Glass Bead Play) and "Tuba Ludens". These pieces are performed by numerous musicians in Croatia and abroad.

Since 1991, Josipović has been the director of the Music Biennale Zagreb (MBZ).

Politics

In 1980 Ivo Josipović became a member of the League of Communists of Croatia. He played a key role in the democratic transformation of this party as the author of the first statute of the Social Democratic Party of Croatia (SDP). In 1994, he left politics, the SDP and dedicated himself to law and music. Upon the invitation of Ivica Račan, who was Prime Minister at the time, he returned to politics in 2003, and became an independent MP with the SDP and Vice-President of the SDP Representatives' Group in the Croatian Parliament. During his mandate in 2005, he was also a representative in the Assembly of the City of Zagreb. In 2007, he was re-elected to the Croatian Parliament. He formally renewed his membership in the SDP in 2008, and on July 12, 2009 he was elected the party's official presidential candidate.

As an MP he has been on various parliamentary committees dealing with legislative, judiciary and constitutional questions, as well as for defining parliamentary rules of procedure and the political system.

Presidential election

• On 20 June 2009, Josipović was nominated as one of the official SDP candidates for the 2010 election. He won in a primary against Ljubo Jurčić on 12 July, becoming the party´s official candidate.

• On 27 December 2009, Josipović won the first round of the presidential election with 32.42% of the vote. He faced Milan Bandić (runner-up with 14.83%) in the second round on 10 January 2010.

• On 10 January 2010 he was elected as the 3rd president of Croatia with 60.26% of the votes (interim figures), beating Milan Bandić in the second round.

References

1. Cvrtila, Marijana (14 September 2009). "Teolozi o izjavi biskupa Štambuka: Predsjednik ne treba biti katolik, nego moralna osoba". Slobodna Dalmacija (in Croatian). Retrieved 2009-12-27.
2. Pavičić, Darko (29 December 2009). "Crkva: Kaptolu nisu po mjeri ni Bandić ni Josipović". Večernji list (in Croatian). Retrieved 2010-01-11.
3. "Za Hrvatsku u kojoj korupciji izmiče tlo pod nogama" (in Croatian). josipovic.net (Official website of the presidential candidate). 8 January 2010. Retrieved 2010-01-12.
4. "Josipović: Hvala na čestitkama! Strpimo se još malo", Jutarnji list (in Croatian), 11 January 2010
5. Ivo Josipović treći hrvatski predsjednik, HRT, 11 January 2010. Template:Hr icon
6. Social Democrat Ivo Josipovic elected Croatia president, BBC News, 11 January 2010.
7. "New Justice" / Main campaign page
8. ^ Ožegović, Nina (14 April 2009). "Ivo Josipovic – presidential ambitions of an [[avant-garde]] [[composer]]". Nacional (700). Retrieved 2009-12-31. {{cite journal}}: URL–wikilink conflict (help) Cite error: The named reference "Nacional" was defined multiple times with different content (see the help page).
9. ^ Ivo Josipović. "Resume" (PDF). Main campaign page.
10. Šetka, Diana (20 August 2009). "IVO I TATJANA JOSIPOVIĆ: Naših dvadeset godina ljubavi". Gloria (in Croatian) (763). Retrieved 2009-12-31.
11. "Josipović: Sudjelovao sam u spašavanju 180 branitelja i obranio Hrvatsku od Haaga". Nacional (in Croatian). 7 December 2009. Retrieved 2009-12-31.
12. Template:Hr icon Ivo Josipović personal home page
13. "Dobitnici Porina 1999" (in Croatian). Institute of Croatian Music Industry. 21 January 2007. Retrieved 2009-12-30.
14. "Dobitnici Porina 2000" (in Croatian). Institute of Croatian Music Industry. 21 January 2007. Retrieved 2009-12-30.
15. "12. srpnja: Jurčić ili Josipović?". sdp.hr. Social Democratic Party of Croatia. 20 June 2009. Retrieved 2009-12-28.

External links

• Ivo Josipović Main campaign page Template:Hr icon
• Ivo Josipović Personal homepage Template:Hr icon
• Ivo Josipović at the Croatian Parliament (Sabor) official web site Template:Hr icon
• Ivo Josipović at the Croatian Composers' Society official web site Template:Hr icon
• List of musical works Template:Hr icon
• SDP-ovac koji je devet godina izbjegavao Račana Template:Hr icon

v t e Presidents of Croatia
Preceded by presidents of the Presidency of SR Croatia (1945–1990)
Presidents (since 1991)	Franjo Tuđman Vlatko Pavletić (acting) Zlatko Tomčić (acting) Stjepan Mesić Ivo Josipović Kolinda Grabar-Kitarović Zoran Milanović

• 1957 births
• 21st-century national presidents in Europe
• Croatian agnostics
• Croatian composers
• Living people
• People from Zagreb
• Presidents of Croatia
• Representatives in the modern Croatian Parliament
• Social Democratic Party of Croatia politicians
• University of Zagreb alumni
• University of Zagreb faculty