Mladen Ivanic
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Mladen Ivanić (Serbian Cyrillic Младен Иванић) is a Bosnian Serb politician the current foreign minister of Bosnia and Herzegovina. He is the sixth foreign minister of the country since it achieved independence in 1992, succeeding Zlatko Lagumdzija on the post.
He is a member of the center-right Party of democratic progress, its president and its founding member since 1999. Born in 1958 in Sanski Most, in the Una-Sana Canton, Ivanic 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; interestingly, the thesis was titled Contemporary marxist political economy in the West.
His political career begins in 1988, when he became a member of the Presidency of Bosnia and Herzegovina. From 2001 to 2003, Ivanic was prime minister in Republika Srpska, and his leadership is described by many as rather successful.
Since 2003, Ivanic has been minister of foreign affairs of Bosnia and Herzegovina, and a member of the Council of Ministers of Bosnia and Herzegovina.