Sandra Švaljek
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| office = Mayor of Zagreb
{{small|Acting}}
| term_start = 21 November 2014
| term_end = 9 March 2015
{{small|During the suspension of Milan Bandić}}
| office2 = Deputy Mayor of Zagreb
| term_start2 = 2 June 2013
| term_end2 = 27 March 2015
| birth_date = {{birth date and age|1970|2|23|df=y}}
| birth_place = Krapina, SR Croatia, SFR Yugoslavia
| nationality = Croatian
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| party = Independent
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| alma_mater = University of Zagreb
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Sandra Švaljek (born 23 February 1970) is a Croatian economist, politician and independent member of the Zagreb Assembly.
Career
She got her PhD with the thesis "Fiscal deficit and public debt: policy, theory and empirics" in 2000. She built her working career at [http://www.eizg.hr The Institute of Economics] in Zagreb, where she is a senior research associate, and for eight years she was the director of the institute.{{cite news |last=Eddy |first=Kester |date=August 9, 2012 |title=Croatia's tax name-and-shame |url=http://blogs.ft.com/beyond-brics/2012/08/09/croatias-tax-name-and-shame/ |newspaper=Financial Times |access-date=July 11, 2015}}
Special areas of interest to her are fiscal and tax policy as well as economic effects of aging. From 2000. to 2013. she was a member of the Croatian National Bank Council. She was the consultant for economy with Prime Minister Jadranka Kosor from 2010 to 2011.{{cite news |author= |title=Savjet HNB-a: Sandra Švaljek i Željko Lovrinčević u sukobu interesa |url=http://arhiva.nacional.hr/clanak/71727/savjet-hnb-a-sandra-svaljek-i-zeljko-lovrincevic-u-sukobu-interesa |newspaper=Nacional |date=November 18, 2009 |access-date=July 11, 2015}} She is the author and co-author of numerous scientific papers.
She is fluent in English, German and French, and understands Italian.
Acting Mayor of Zagreb
On the direct elections held on 2 June 2013 Sandra Švaljek was appointed the first Deputy Mayor of the City of Zagreb and exercised the duty until 20 November 2014
and again from 10 March to 27 March 2015.
With the Zagreb County Court decisions concerning the prohibition and elimination of the prohibition of carrying out his professional duties to the Mayor Milan Bandic,
from 21 November 2014 to 9 March 2015 she was the Acting Mayor of Zagreb.
She attended the Sljeme FIS World Cup Snow Queen, where she handed the winning crown to Mikaeli Shiffrin.{{cite news |last1=Macukić |first1=Viktorija |last2=Mesić |first2=Matija |date=January 5, 2015 |title=Unatoč lijepom vremenu, Snježnu kraljicu pratilo samo osam tisuća gledatelja |url=http://www.jutarnji.hr/unatoc-lijepom-vremenu--snjeznu-kraljicu-jucer-pratilo-samo-osam-tisuca-gledatelja/1268384/ |newspaper=Jutarnji list |access-date=July 11, 2015}} During her mandate as Acting Mayor of Zagreb Sandra Švaljek proposed the
city budget for 2015, carried out the first public tender for the Board of the Zagreb Holding and adopted several amendments to city decisions. After the Mayor Bandić gave
power of attorney to his second deputy Vesna Kusin, on 27 March 2015 she resigned her position as deputy mayor. Following the resignation she returned to the Institute of Economics
and activated her mandate in the Zagreb City Assembly.
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