Danica Drašković

Danica Drašković (, ; born 14 November 1945) is a Serbian lawyer, writer, and politician. She is the wife of Vuk Drašković, the co-founder and former president of the Serbian Renewal Movement and former minister of foreign affairs of Serbia.

Born in Kolašin, Montenegro, Drašković was educated at the Faculty of Law of the University of Belgrade. She became prominent in Serbian politics in the 1990s as the wife of Vuk Drašković and because of her newspaper columns. Drašković served as a member of the management board of Naftna Industrija Srbije (NIS) from 2009 to 2013, and since 2014 she has served as a member of the Board of Directors of NIS. On June 20, 2025, Danica Drašković and the former mayor of Zrenjanin Goran Knežević were dismissed from the position of members of the board of directors of the company NIS. Their place was occupied by the former Minister of Environmental Protection Irena Vujović and the former mayor of Novi Sad Milan Đurić.

Early life and education Danica Bošković was born on 14 November 1945 in Kolašin, Federated State of Montenegro, Democratic Federal Yugoslavia as the third child in a wealthy family. Her father was a Chetnik. Her husband has been the president of SPO since its establishment. Despite being most known for being Drašković's wife, she has made a political profile for herself in the early 1990s. She participated with musician Olivera Katarina at a women's rights rally, has taken part in a Novi Sad rally against Vojvodina autonomists, and has protested in front of the embassies of Albania and Romania. She was also involved in attacking special forces and policemen at Ravna Gora. Throughout the rest of the 1990s, Drašković has taken part in various anti-government protests.

2000s SPO submitted a request to appoint Drašković as the director of the Institute of Security in 2004. Drašković has described herself as an "expert in that place" due to her previous work as a lawyer and a judge. This request became a subject of ridicule in Serbian politics. Once SPO joined Vojislav Koštunica's government in 2004, it was alleged that Drašković was the one who chose her husband's diplomatic team. Media speculated that Drašković would be appointed director of Telekom Srbija in 2008. In response to the speculations, Drašković has said that she is "competent enough to perform the function of the director"; she was never appointed director of Telekom Srbija. Journalist Tamara Skrozza has said that the public made speculations and theories about the reason of her appointment. As the member of the Board of Directors of NIS, she earns RSD 771,000 a month. She has been re-appointed several times since then, most recently being in 2023. Zorana Mihajlović, a government minister, unsuccessfully tried to dismiss Drašković and two other members from their positions in late 2020. The assembly of NIS later re-selected Drašković and the two members to continue serving their positions.

She has written opinion articles for newspaper Danas.

Political positions Drašković is an anti-communist. Skrozza has written that Drašković received controversy due to "not caring about the consequences for her or her husband" about the hardline views she expressed in her columns. "I do not change my views and opinions even under coercion", Drašković has said. When her husband called for nonviolent resistance against Milošević, Drašković has said that "Miloševićs deserved nothing more than to be crucified by the people on their horses' tails".

Drašković has criticised Aleksandar Vulin, a government minister and president of the Movement of Socialists; she has described him as a fascist and as "Mirjana Marković's commissioner".

Personal life Her nickname is Dana.

Family During her studies at the University of Belgrade, she met Drašković, whom she dated until the student demonstrations in 1968. Drašković's brother, Veselin Bošković, was killed during the Ibar Highway assassination attempt.