Davor Ivo Stier

Davor Ivo Stier
MEP
Incumbent
Assumed office
1 July 2013
Personal details
Born 6 January 1972
Buenos Aires, Argentina
Nationality Croatian
Political party Croatian Democratic Union
Religion Roman Catholic

Davor Ivo Stier (born 6 January 1972 in Buenos Aires, Argentina) is a Croatian Democratic Union politician. Following Croatia's accession to the European Union in 2013, he was elected as one of the first group of Croatian members of the European Parliament.[1]

Stier was born into a Croatian expatriate family in Argentinahis paternal grandfather was a colonel in the Ustaše who left for South America after World War II.[2] Stier returned to Croatia in 1996 and worked as a diplomat in Washington and Brussels. He was also a foreign policy adviser to Ivo Sanader.[2] He was subsequently elected to the Croatian Parliament in 2011.[3]

References

  1. Profile European Parliament
  2. 2.0 2.1 ""I'm leading us to the EU through quiet diplomacy"". Nacional. 13 July 2010. Retrieved 1 August 2013.
  3. "Davor Ivo Stier, životopis" (in Croatian). 8 April 2013. Retrieved 1 August 2013.
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