Gordana Siljanovska-Davkova

About

Gordana Siljanovska-Davkova (Macedonian: Гордана Сиљановска-Давкова; born 11 May 1953) is a Macedonian university law professor and jurist serving as the president of North Macedonia since May 2024. She was a candidate for the 2019 presidential elections, losing to Stevo Pendarovski in the runoff. She ran again in the 2024 presidential elections and defeated Pendarovski by a landslide in a rematch election. She is North Macedonia’s first female president.

== Early life and education ==
Gordana Siljanovska-Davkova was born on 11 May 1953, in Ohrid, Socialist Macedonia, Yugoslavia (now North Macedonia). She completed her primary and secondary education in Skopje. She graduated from the Faculty of Law at the Ss. Cyril and Methodius University of Skopje in 1978, where she also received her master’s degree. She defended her thesis, titled Local Self-Government — Between Norms and Reality, at the University of Ljubljana and earned her PhD degree in 1994.

== Career ==
She became an assistant professor of political systems at the Faculty of Law in Skopje in 1989, and an associate professor of constitutional law and political systems in 1994. She became a full professor in 2004, and ever since…