Government of Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina

Born on December 14, 1952 in Srebrenica. Elementary and secondary education completed in his hometown.
From the Faculty of Mechanical Engineering of the University in Maribor, Slovenia, in 1979 he received bachelor degree in mechanical engineering .

Used to be employed with the High Schools Center in Bratunac as teacher since 1979. After he served his military service in 1980, in 1981 he gets employed with the company „Energoinvest“ Sarajevo - Factory of Car Batteries Srebrenica, working as senior associate, technologist-constructor, then as Director of the Maintenance Service and Assistant Director for Development until 1983.

Duty of the Director of the Factory of Tin Containers („Fabrika limene ambalaže“) Srebrenica, under holding company „UPI“ Sarajevo, performed since 1983 until 1992. In the period between 1992 and 1996 held the position of the Director in the company „Corad“ LLC Bajina Bašta.

In 1996 he was appointed a member of the Managing Board of the company Elektroprivreda (electrical utility) of Republika Srpska, holding this position for two years. In the period between 1998 and 2000 he reinstated on the position of the Director of the Factory of Tin Containers („Fabrika limene ambalaže“) Srebrenica. In 2000 he was appointed the Chairman of the Municipal Council of the Municipality Srebrenica and carries out this position until 2002. Since 2000 he used to be Committee Member in the Assembly of Municipality Srebrenica. For the mandate period 2002 – 2006 he was appointed Vice-President of the Federation BiH. He was Representative in the House of the Representatives of the Parliament of the Federation BiH since 2006, and on March 30, 2007 appointed to position of the Minister of Trade in the Government of the Federation BiH.

Attended numerous profession-related and scientific seminars home and abroad in area of economics.

Final paper of his Master in Business Administration and Finance Management was entitled “Evaluation of Value of Real Estate Spaces”, while his doctoral dissertation topic was already approved entitled “Impact of the US and European Policies to Development of the South-Eastern Europe – CEFTA, with Special Review of Bosnia and Herzegovina”.  Holds the Certificate on successfully completed training course in area of business plan preparation. For several times he was awarded acknowledgements for rationalization of the production processes in the “Energoinvest” Sarajevo and “UPI” Sarajevo, as well as other recognitions from the community for his contributions to development of the Municipality Srebrenica.

Actively speaks English. Has passive knowledge of German.
Actively uses MS Office (Word, Excel, PowerPoint) and Internet applications.

Married, father of three.