Romana Jerković

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.

Early life and education Jerković was born in Split 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.

Political career

Career in national politics Jerković joined the Social Democratic Party in 1999. She became a member of the Croatian Parliament in 2008 as a substitute for Zlatko Komadina.

Member of the European Parliament, 2020–present Jerković stood for her party at the 2019 European Parliament election in Croatia failing to win a seat immediately but securing a seat among the British seats that were redistributed after the UK left the European Union. She took her seat in the European Parliament after Brexit.

In parliament, Jerković has since been serving on the Committee on Industry, Research and Energy. She has been the parliament's rapporteur on the European Commission's 2021 proposal for a regulation on electronic identification and trust services for electronic transactions (eIDAS).

In addition to her committee assignments, Jerković is part of the parliament's delegation to the EU-Albania Stabilisation and Association Parliamentary Committee and the European Parliament Intergroup on Cancer.