Career
She was the Deputy Prime Minister in the Government of Serbia. She was the Serbian Minister of Agriculture, Forestry, and Water Management from 2004 to 2006 when she resigned in order to take the new position of Deputy Prime Minister. She graduated with a Doctor of Philosophy from Belgrade University in biotechnology in 1999, and was a teaching assistant at the faculty of biology.
Besides her government position she is also a professor at the agricultural faculty at the University of Banja Luka.
She declares herself as an ethnic Croat which made her the only representative of this minority among 1st Koštunica"s government ministers.