Svetlana Broz

Svetlana Broz (born 1955, Belgrade, Serbia) is an author and physician who specializes in cardiology. She is the granddaughter of former Yugoslav leader Josip Broz Tito.

Born in 1955, Broz is the youngest child of Žarko Broz, Tito's eldest son, and Zlata Jelinek-Broz. She worked as a free-lance journalist from 1970 to 1975; many of her articles and interviews were published in newspapers and magazines.

Broz earned her medical degree from the Faculty of Medicine at the University of Belgrade in 1980 She served as a cardiologist at the Military Medical Academy from 1981 to 1999, and volunteered her services at the outbreak of the war in Bosnia and Herzegovina in 1992. Her new project is about inter-ethnic marriages entered into during the war.

In 2000, she moved to Sarajevo permanently. The reason for this was, as she stated in an interview for Bosnian daily newspaper Nezavisne Novine, "After the NATO intervention, I moved to Sarajevo. Twenty years ago, Belgrade was a European metropolis, a city that I loved a lot. Unfortunately, in a way that city has lost its soul. Sarajevo, despite going through a four year long siege of hell, kept its soul intact. I love Bosnia-Herzegovina, I feel as this is my homeland. Last year I even became a citizen." In 2004, she became a citizen of Bosnia-Herzegovina. Dr. Broz is currently the head of a branch of the Gardens of the Righteous Worldwide (GARIWO) in Sarajevo. She is the founder of "Education Towards Civil Courage," a series of seminars designed to teach adolescents from all over the Balkans how to stand up to corruption and social and political divisiveness. In the summer 2007, the organization will begin the research and preparation phase for the foundation of a Center for Civil Courage in Bosnia-Herzegovina.

Writings

 * Good People in an Evil Time, 2002.