Zlatko lagumdzija biography books

Former Prime Minister and Former Foreign Minister of Bosnia-Herzegovina

Zlatko Lagumdzija was born in Sarajevo (Federal Republic of Bosnia and Herzegovina) on the 26th of December 1955.

He is the son of a former Mayor of Sarajevo, Salko Lagumdzija (1921-1973), who governed the Bosnian Capital from 1965 to 1967. Zlatko grew up in Bosnia but completed his secondary education in Detroit in the US in 1973, through the Youth for Understanding student exchange program.

He eventually returned to Bosnia where he studied for a BSc in Computer Science and Electrical Engineering, followed by an MSc in 1981 and finally a PhD in 1988 in the same fields, with spells in the US. He then went on to undertake postdoctoral research at the University of Arizona, funded by an international exchange program, in Management Information Systems at the University’s Centre for Computing and Information Technology.

In 1989 he was nominated Professor of Management Information Systems (MIS)