Mladen Ivanic
Chairman of the Presidency of Bosnia & Herzegovina (2014-15, 2016-17)
Mladen Ivanic
Chairman of the Presidency of Bosnia & Herzegovina (2014-15, 2016-17)
Biography
Born 16th September 1958 in Sanski Most, Bosnia-Herzegovina
Education
1996 - Postdoctoral studies, Glasgow University, UK
1989 - Postdoctoral studies, Fakultät für Volkswirtschaftslehre, Manheim University, Germany
1988- Doctorate, Faculty of Economics, University of Belgrade, Serbia
1984 - Postgraduate studies, Faculty of Economics, University of Belgrade, Serbia
1981 - Faculty of Economics, University of Banja Luka, Bosnia-Herzegovina
Career
2018- Honorary President of the Party of Democratic Progress, Banja Luka, Bosnia-Herzegovina
2014-2018 Member of the Presidency of Bosnia-Herzegovina, Sarajevo, Bosnia-Herzegovina
2007-2014 Member of the Parliament of Bosnia-Herzegovina, Sarajevo, Bosnia-Herzegovina
2003-2007 Minister of Foreign Affairs of Bosnia-Herzegovina, Sarajevo, Bosnia-Herzegovina
2001-2003 Prime Minister of the Republic of Srpska, Banja Luka, Bosnia-Herzegovina
1998-2001 Chairman Deloitte and Touche, Banja Luka, Bosnia-Herzegovina
1988-1991 Member of the Presidency of Bosnia-Herzegovina, Sarajevo, Bosnia-Herzegovina
1988-2018 Professor, Faculty of Economics, University of Banja Luka, Bosnia-Herzegovina
1984-1988 Assistant professor, Faculty of Economics, University of Banja Luka, Bosnia-Herzegovina
1981-1984 Journalist, Radio Banja Luka, Bosnia-Herzegovina
Additional activities
2007-2014 Member of Parliamentary Assembly of Council of Europe (Vice President of the Parliamentary Assembly of Council of Europe for one year), Strasbourg, France
2001-2007 Member of the Board of Governors of the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development on behalf of Bosnia-Herzegovina
1990-2014 President of the Party of Democratic Progress, Banja Luka, Bosnia-Herzegovina
1989-1991 Professor, Faculty of Economics, University of Sarajevo, Bosnia-Herzegovina
Participant in significant number of international conferences organised by the United Nations, Council of Europe
Associate of United Nations Development Programme and World Bank projects
Author of six books and about 30 scientific papers
Mladen Ivanić (Sanski Most, FPRY, September 16, 1958) is a Serb politician and university professor. He is the current honorary president of the Party of Democratic Progress (PDP). He was a member of the Presidency of SR BiH (1988 to 1991), Prime Minister of Republic of Srpska (2001 to 2003), Minister of Foreign Affairs of Bosnia and Herzegovina (2003 to 2007), Member of the Parliament of Bosnia and Herzegovina (2007 – 2014), Member of the Presidency of Bosnia and Herzegovina (2014 to 2018). In 1999, he founded the Party of Democratic Progress and was its president from its founding until 2015. He was a member of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe from 2007 to 2014.
He graduated in 1981 from the Faculty of Economics in Banja Luka, and in 1984 he received his master's degree from the Faculty of Economics in Belgrade. He received his doctorate from the Faculty of Economics in Belgrade in 1988. He was in postdoctoral studies at the University of Mannheim (Germany) and the University of Glasgow (UK). Since 1985, he has been teaching Political Economy at the Faculty of Economics in Banja Luka as an assistant and since 1988 as an associate professor. He taught Political Economy at the Faculty of Economics in Sarajevo (from 1990 to 1992) and at the Faculty of Economics in Eastern Sarajevo (from 1992 to 1998). He is the author of several books and dozens of scientific and professional papers. He has been a contributor to the World Bank and UNDP on a number of international projects. Furthermore, he is an honorary doctor of science from the University of Baku, Azerbaijan.
He ran the office of one of the largest consulting and auditing companies in the world, Deloitte and Touche, for Bosnia and Herzegovina from 1996 to 1999.
He is the founder of the Center for Economic, Legal and Social Analysis from Banja Luka.
