Lagumdzija, Zlatko

Zlatko Lagumdzija

Prime Minister of Bosnia & Herzegovina (July 2001-March 2002)

Date and Place of Birth:

26 December 1955, Sarajevo (Bosnia & Herzegovina).

Education:

Mr. Lagumdzija graduated from the University of Sarajevo with a B.Sc., M.Sc., and Ph.D in Computer Science and Electrical Engineering (1977, 1981, and 1988, respectively).

Professional Experience:

Since 1989 Mr. Lagumdzija has worked as a Professor of Management Information Systems within the School of Economics as well as the Computer Science and Electrical Engineering School at the University of Sarajevo. He also currently serves as Director of the Management and Information Technology Centre in Sarajevo, a position which he has held since 1995. Today Zlatko Lagumdzija provides consultative services to various businesses and governmental organizations.

Political Career:

Mr Lagumdzija was named Deputy Prime Minister of Bosnia & Herzegovina in 1992. He served as acting Prime Minister during 1993, and has been a Member of Parliament and the House of Representatives since 1996. He has served as Foreign Minister of Bosnia and Herzegovina (2001-2003), Chairman of the Council of Ministers (2001-2002), and in 2001 became Prime Minister of Bosnia & Herzegovina, a position which he held through 2003.

He has served as a Member of different International Missions and Commissions such as the International Mission on Pakistan elections in 1998, the First SI Mission of four former Prime ministers in Post-Saddam Iraq in 2003, the NDI Pre-election Mission in Afghanistan during 2004 and the International Commission on the Balkans in 2004. Since 1998 Mr. Lagumdzija has been a member of “Global Leaders for Tomorrow” which is part of the World Economic Forum and has been Member of the International Advisory Committee for the Congress of Democrats from the Islamic World 2004. He currently serves as President of the Social Democratic Party of Bosnia & Herzegovina (SDP).

Other:

He is actively involved in many international conferences as both a participant and a speaker, and has been awarded numerous national and international awards for his research and expertise. He is the author of over one hundred scholarly research and expert papers, numerous articles on Bosnian political and economic issues, and six books on Management Information Systems.