Mladen Ivanić
Mladen Ivanić | |
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Chairman of the Presidency of Bosnia and Herzegovina | |
Incumbent | |
Assumed office 17 November 2014 | |
Prime Minister | Vjekoslav Bevanda Denis Zvizdić |
Preceded by | Bakir Izetbegović |
Serb Member of the Presidency of Bosnia and Herzegovina | |
Incumbent | |
Assumed office 17 November 2014 | |
Preceded by | Nebojša Radmanović |
Chairperson of the House of Peoples | |
In office 14 July 2008 – 26 February 2009 | |
Preceded by | Sulejman Tihić |
Succeeded by | Dušanka Majkić |
11th Prime Minister of Republika Srpska | |
In office 16 January 2001 – 17 January 2003 | |
President | Mirko Šarović Dragan Čavić |
Preceded by | Milorad Dodik |
Succeeded by | Dragan Mikerević |
Personal details | |
Born | Sanski Most, Yugoslavia (now Bosnia and Herzegovina) | 16 September 1958
Political party | Party of Democratic Progress |
Alma mater | University of Banja Luka University of Belgrade |
Mladen Ivanić (Serbian Cyrillic: Младен Иванић, pronounced [mlâden ǐʋanit͡ɕ]; 16 September 1958)[1] is a Bosnian Serb politician. He has been chairman of the presidency since November 2014.
He is a member of the center-right Party of Democratic Progress (PDP), its president and its founding member since 1999. Born in 1958 in Sanski Most, Ivanić has been a resident of Banja Luka since 1971, where he got his university diploma in economics. He then got a doctor's degree in Belgrade; the thesis was titled Contemporary Marxist political economy in the West. His political career begins in 1988, when he became a member of the Presidency of Bosnia and Herzegovina.
From 2001 to 2003, Ivanić was Prime Minister of Republika Srpska. He also served as the sixth foreign minister of Bosnia and Herzegovina since it became independent in 1992, succeeding Zlatko Lagumdžija on the post, and as such was a member of the Council of Ministers of Bosnia and Herzegovina. In turn, he was succeeded on the post in 2007 by Sven Alkalaj.
References
- ↑ Profile page at the Council of Europe
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Political offices | ||
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Preceded by Milorad Dodik |
Prime Minister of Republika Srpska 2001–2003 |
Succeeded by Dragan Mikerević |
Preceded by Zlatko Lagumdžija |
Minister of Foreign Affairs 2003–2007 |
Succeeded by Sven Alkalaj |
Preceded by Sulejman Tihić |
Chairman of the House of Peoples 2008–2009 |
Succeeded by Dušanka Majkić |
Preceded by Nebojša Radmanović |
Serb Member of the Presidency of Bosnia and Herzegovina 2014–present |
Incumbent |
Preceded by Bakir Izetbegović |
Chairman of the Presidency of Bosnia and Herzegovina 2014–present |
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