Romana Jerković
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Romana Jerković | |
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| Member of the European Parliament for Croatia | |
| Assumed office 1 February 2020 | |
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| Born | 28 November 1964 |
| Party | SDP |
| Alma mater | University of Rijeka |
Romana Jerković (born 28 November 1964) is a Croatian politician of the Social Democratic Party currently serving her second term as a Member of the European Parliament for Croatia since February 2020, when Croatia gained one more EP seat due to Brexit. She was re-elected at the 2024 European Parliament election.
Before becoming an MEP she was a member of the Croatian Parliament from 2008 to 2020 and deputy mayor of Rijeka from 2006 to 2009.
Jerković was born in Split[1] and grew up in the Lovište village on Pelješac. She graduated at the School of Medicine, University of Rijeka in 1994. In 1998, she received her doctorate at the Department of Biomedical Research of the University of Padua in Italy. She came back to Rijeka and started working at the Institute of Anatomy of the School of Medicine.[2]
