Education
University of Belgrade Faculty of Economics.
politician prime minister university professor
University of Belgrade Faculty of Economics.
Born 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.
He undertook post-Doctoral studies at the University of Mannheim and the University of Glasgow.
Upon completion of his studies, he worked as a journalist. From 1985 to 1988, he lectured in Political Economy at the Faculty of Economics in Banja Luka, and later also in Sarajevo and Glasgow.
From 2001 to 2003, Ivanić was Prime Minister of Republika Srpska (RS), one of Bosnia and Herzegovina"s two entities. In turn, he was succeeded on the post in 2007 by Sven Alkalaj.
He was chairman of the Presidency of Bosnia and Herzegovina (head of state) from November 17, 2014 until July 17, 2015.
He speaks German and English.
His political career begins in 1988, when he became a member of the Presidency of Bosnia and Herzegovina during Yugoslav Socialist times.
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. He is a founding member of the center-right Bosnian Serb Party of Democratic Progress (PDP) and its President from 1999 to 2015. In October 2014, he was elected as the Serb member of the Presidency of Bosnia and Herzegovina, narrowly beating SNSD"s candidate, the RS Prime Minister Željka Cvijanović.
His victory marked the first time since the Dayton Agreement that the Serb member of the Presidency received the highest number of votes in the country, out of the three elected members.