Background
Marinko Čavara was born in Busovača to father Niko and mother Anđa.
Marinko Čavara was born in Busovača to father Niko and mother Anđa.
He attended elementary school in Busovača, graduating in 1981. He continued education in engineering high school in Busovača and graduated in 1985. After that he went to University of Zenica where he attended Faculty of Engineering and graduated in 1991.
He is currently President of the Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina. During the 1991, he worked as a professor of engineering and physics in high school in Busovača. In 1992 he become director of Busovača post.
During the Bosnian War, Čavara was municipal commissioner for war production and workers involved in war production in central Bosnia and head of the municipal Civil Protection.
In 1990, Čavara joined the Croatian Democratic Union of Bosnia and Herzegovina. Between 1994 and 1995 he was Vice-President of the Christian Democratic Union. In 2002 he was once again named Vice-President and President of the Christian Democratic Union in Busovača.
In 1997, Čavara was elected to the Busovača Municipal Council. On the 2000 election, he was elected to the Assembly of the Central Bosnia Canton.
On the election held two years later, he saved his position in the Assembly.
As of 1996, he worked as Deputy Minister for Traffic and Connection in Central Bosnia Canton. In 2001, his ministry was dismissed and Čavara was named Deputy Director of the Cantonal Directorate for Roads and was later named Director. He worked in this office until 2005.
Between 2005 and 2006 he was an advisor to Ivo Miro Jović, who was, at the time, Croat member of the Presidency of Bosnia and Herzegovina. From May 2006 until February 2007, he was Member of the House of Peoples of the Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina.