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Radovan Fuchs
PhD Radovan Fuchs
	Fuchs in 2022
Minister of Science and Education
	Incumbent
	Assumed office ; 23 July 2020
Prime Minister	Andrej Plenković
Preceded by	Blaženka Divjak
Minister of Science, Education and Sports
	In office; 2 July 2009 – 23 December 2011
Prime Minister	Jadranka Kosor
Preceded by	Dragan Primorac
Succeeded by	Željko Jovanović
Personal details
Born	5 September 1953 (age 71); Zagreb, PR Croatia, FPR Yugoslavia
Political party	Democratic Centre; Croatian Democratic Union;
Spouse	Maja Fuchs
Children	2
Alma mater	University of Zagreb; Uppsala University;

Radovan Fuchs (born 5 September 1953) is a Croatian scientist and politician serving as Minister of Science and Education since 2020.

His paternal grandfather, Hinko, was a grain merchant who emigrated to Croatia from Germany, while his paternal grandmother, Eugenia, was from Hungary.^[1] The couple settled in the Croatian region of Slavonia. His maternal grandparents were from Vela Luka. Fuchs is of Croatian, Hungarian, and Jewish descent.^[1] His father converted to Catholicism, and Christmas and other Catholic holidays were always celebrated in the Fuchs household.^[1] He is a relative, on his father's side, of Croatian composer Vatroslav Lisinski.^[1] Fuchs graduated in 1979 from the Veterinary Faculty at the University of Zagreb.^[2] He received his master's degree in 1984 in the field of biomedicine. Fuchs obtained his PhD diploma in 1988 on the biomedical center at Uppsala University in Sweden.^[2] Dissertation which he defended was from the field of toxicology and pharmacology.