Parliamentary Assembly session : 22 -26 April 2002 

Zlatko LAGUMDZIJA, D.Sc.

Minister of Foreign Affairs of Bosnia and Herzegovina

Date and place of birth: 26 December 1955, Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina

Marital status: Married, father of two children

EDUCATION:
1972 - Graduated from the high school, Detroit (USA)
1976 University Degree, Faculty of Electrical Engineering, University of Sarajevo
1981 - Masters Degree, Faculty of Electrical Engineering, University of Sarajevo
1988 - Doctors Degree, Faculty of Electrical Engineering, University of Sarajevo

PROFESSIONAL CAREER:

Visiting Professor and Researcher at the Arizona University, USA, from 1988 till 1989
Professor at the Faculty of Economy, and at the Faculty of Electrical Engineering, University of Sarajevo, from 1989
Director of the Center for Management and Computer technology, from 1995
Member of the "Leaders of Tomorrow", the World Economic Forum from Davos (GLT), from 1998
Author of five books and over hundred of scientific and expert papers, published in country and abroad

POLITICAL ENGAGEMENT:
Since 1997, Mr. Lagumdzija has been the President of the Social Democratic Party of BiH. From 1996, he was a representative in the House of Representatives of the Parliamentary Assembly of Bosnia and Herzegovina.