Ivana Nikolić
# Ivana Nikolić

Ivana Nikolić (Serbian Cyrillic: Ивана Николић; born 1989) is a Serbian politician. She has served in the National Assembly of Serbia since 2016 as a member of Serbian Progressive Party (SNS).

## Private career

Nikolić was born in Valjevo, in what was then the Socialist Republic of Serbia in the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia. She attended elementary school in Ub and secondary school in Belgrade, holds a master of engineering degree in from the University of Belgrade Faculty of Transport and Traffic Engineering, and is now seeking a Ph.D. from the latter institution.

## Politician

### Parliamentarian

Nikolić received the eighty-first position on the Progressive Party's Aleksandar Vučić – Serbia Is Winning electoral list in the 2016 Serbian parliamentary election and was elected when the list won a majority victory with 131 out of 250 mandates. In the parliament that followed, she was a member of the environmental protection committee; a deputy member of the European integration committee and the committee on spatial planning, transport, infrastructure, and telecommunications; and a member of the parliamentary friendship groups with Austria, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Bolivia, China, France, Georgia, Germany, Kazakhstan, Morocco, Russia, Slovenia, Sweden, and Switzerland.

She was promoted to the eighth position on the Progressive Party's list in the 2020 parliamentary election and was re-elected when the list won a landslide majority with 188 mandates. In her second term, she was a member of the committee on administrative, budgetary, mandate, and immunity issues; a member of the committee on spatial planning, transport, infrastructure, and telecommunications; a deputy member of the committee on human and minority rights and gender equality; a member of Serbia's delegation to the Parliamentary Assembly of the Mediterranean; the head of Serbia's parliamentary friendship group with Ghana; and a member of fifty-two other friendship groups.

Nikolić was given the thirty-sixth position on the SNS's list in the 2022 parliamentary election and was again re-elected when the list won a plurality victory with 120 mandates. She is now a member of the spatial planning committee, a deputy member of the committee on the diaspora and Serbs in the region, a deputy member of Serbia's delegation to the Parliamentary Assembly of the Mediterranean, the leader of Serbia's parliamentary friendship group with the Democratic Republic of the Congo, and a member of fifty-seven other friendship groups.

### Municipal politics

Nikolić received the fifth position on the Progressive Party's electoral list for the Ub municipal assembly in the 2020 Serbian local elections and was elected when the list won twenty-six out of thirty mandates. She was chosen as speaker of the assembly after the election.

