- European Commissioner for the Mediterranean
- Dubravka Šuica is a Croatian politician with extensive experience at local, national, European and international level. Since 2024, she has served as European Commissioner for the Mediterranean, having previously been Vice-President of the European Commission for Democracy and Demography from 2019 to 2024. She has also held a number of senior political roles within the European People’s Party (EPP), including Vice-President of the EPP since 2022, Vice-Chair of the EPP Group in the European Parliament in 2019, and Vice-President of EPP Women from 2012 to 2016. Before joining the Commission, she was a Member of the European Parliament from 2013 to 2019, where she headed the Croatian EPP delegation and served as Vice-Chair of the Committee on Foreign Affairs (AFET) from 2016 to 2019. In Croatian politics, she has been active for decades, including as Chair of the HDZ Committee on Foreign Affairs and European Affairs since 2012, Vice-President of the HDZ from 2009 to 2015, Member of the Croatian Parliament from 1998 to 2001, and Mayor of Dubrovnik from 2001 to 2009. Her local and regional experience also includes service on the Dubrovnik City Council, the Dubrovnik-Neretva County Assembly, and as Vice-President of the Congress of Local and Regional Authorities of the Council of Europe from 2004 to 2014.
