Hasan Muratović (11 April 1940 – 14 November 2020) was a Bosnian
politician
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,
entrepreneur
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and professor. He served as the 4th and last
Prime Minister
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of the
Republic of Bosnia and Herzegovina
The Republic of Bosnia and Herzegovina ( sh-Latn-Cyrl, separator=" / ", Republika Bosna i Hercegovina, Република Босна и Херцеговина) was a state in Southeastern Europe, existing from 1992 to 1995. It is the direct lega ...
from 30 January 1996 to 3 January 1997. Muratović was also known for his long-term professorship at the Faculty of Economics and the Faculty of Electrical Engineering at the
University of Sarajevo
The University of Sarajevo ( Bosnian, Croatian and Serbian: ''Univerzitet u Sarajevu'' / Sveučilište u Sarajevu / Универзитет у Сарајеву) is a public university located in Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina. It is the larges ...
. He was also a rector of the University of Sarajevo from 2004 until 2006.
He was known as a successful manager in many positions in business companies as well as a consultant in domestic and international consulting firms, including
Deloitte
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. As a politician, apart from being Prime Minister, Muratović also served as a
minister without portfolio
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in all of the war governments of the Republic of Bosnia and Herzegovina. He was the first post-war
Minister of Foreign Trade and Economic Relations from 3 January 1997 until 4 February 1999, an Ambassador to
Croatia
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from 1999 to 2002 and Vice President of the
Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe
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from 2002 until 2004. Up to his death, he was
professor emeritus
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of University of Sarajevo, part-time professor and consultant.
Education
Muratović completed the
Bachelor of Science
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The first university to admit a student to the degree of Bachelor of Science was the University of ...
in mechanical engineering at the
University of Ljubljana
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History Beginnings
Although certain ...
in 1964, the
Master of Science
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in organization sciences at the
University of Sarajevo
The University of Sarajevo ( Bosnian, Croatian and Serbian: ''Univerzitet u Sarajevu'' / Sveučilište u Sarajevu / Универзитет у Сарајеву) is a public university located in Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina. It is the larges ...
in 1972 and the PhD at the
Organization Sciences University of Belgrade in 1981.
Academic career
Muratović began teaching as an assistant professor at the Mechanical Faculty at the
University of Sarajevo
The University of Sarajevo ( Bosnian, Croatian and Serbian: ''Univerzitet u Sarajevu'' / Sveučilište u Sarajevu / Универзитет у Сарајеву) is a public university located in Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina. It is the larges ...
in 1974. In 1982, he was promoted to lecturer at
Faculty of Electrical Engineering, University of Sarajevo
The Faculty of Electrical Engineering ( sh, Elektrotehnički Fakultet) or ETF is one of the faculties of University of Sarajevo
The University of Sarajevo ( Bosnian, Croatian and Serbian: ''Univerzitet u Sarajevu'' / Sveučilište u Sarajevu / ...
and later professor in 1988 in Theory of Systems and Analyses of Information Systems where he lectured until he was elected the rector. He was, at the same time, professor in Management and Organization at the
Economic Faculty Sarajevo where he founded the Department of M&O and was its manager (1989–2006). As a rector of the University of Sarajevo, Muratović reformed the system of high education and introduced the
Bologna Process of Higher Education.
He was an author of four and co-author of six books and over 120 papers in the field of strategy, restructuring, organization structures, change, crisis management and negotiations.
Business career
Parallel with his academic career, Muratović was also active in business companies transferring his knowledge from research and university to practical projects and management. After finishing his studies in mechanical engineering, he worked in Fabrika motora Sarajevo (largely known as ''FAMOS'') from 1964 to 1973, first as a designer in R&D department and then as a manager of production planning and the manager of strategic planning, finances and information systems. He then joined the United Bus Company of
Lusaka
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,
Zambia
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during the period of 1973–1977 as a regional manager, where he established state passenger transportation. After that assignment, Muratović worked for ten years as a consultant in Institute for Economic and Organization Sarajevo from 1977 until 1987. During that ten-year period, he managed development and construction of large military industry complexes in
Iraq
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.
During the late 1980s and early 1990s, Muratović managed the Institute for Research and Development of ''UPI'', one of the ten biggest companies in the
former Yugoslavia
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. In 1989, he established his own consulting company, ''BHM'', which operated very successfully until the beginning of the war. Muratović was the chairman of the Bosnia version of
Deloitte
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from 2004 to 2008, and then a consultant for Management consulting projects.
Political career
Muratović began his political career in the beginning of the
Bosnian War
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. In June 1992, he took position of minister in the first wartime government of the
Republic of Bosnia and Herzegovina
The Republic of Bosnia and Herzegovina ( sh-Latn-Cyrl, separator=" / ", Republika Bosna i Hercegovina, Република Босна и Херцеговина) was a state in Southeastern Europe, existing from 1992 to 1995. It is the direct lega ...
. He served in different ministerial positions in all six war governments, the longest period as a
minister without portfolio
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and president of State Committee for Cooperation with
UNPROFOR
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(United Nations Protection Force) and other international organizations. He was known as a very successful negotiator. Muratović negotiated also, through all of the war, with enemies (other two warring sides). In memoirist books written by representatives of international organizations, Muratović is described as a tough and rational negotiator. After the
Dayton Agreement
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had been signed, in which signatory ceremony he participated, he became the 4th, and ultimately last,
Prime Minister
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of the Republic of Bosnia and Herzegovina on 30 January 1996, a position he held on to until 3 January 1997.
During his period as Prime Minister, Muratović created the first plan for post-war reconstruction, together with
World Bank
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expert teams, completed negotiations with
Paris
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and
London
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Clubs and other international financial institutions. He also organised donor conferences held with the support of the
High Representative
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of the
UN and
EU in which US5.1 billion was collected for the post-war recovery. Muratović was also governor of
Bosnia and Herzegovina
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for the World Bank from 1996 to 1998. He acted as a leader of two election campaigns for the
Party of Democratic Action
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History
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(SDA) in 1996 and in 2002. In both he obtained the best results.
After the first post-war elections, Muratović became the first
Minister of Foreign Trade and Economic Relations on 3 January 1997, but resigned two years later after getting appointed as Bosnia and Herzegovina Ambassador to
Croatia
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on 4 February 1999. In 2002, he left the ambassador role and became the Vice President of the
Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe
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. Muratović resigned from that position in 2004, taking the new position of rector at the
University of Sarajevo
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.
Personal life
Muratović lived in
Sarajevo
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,
Bosnia and Herzegovina
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up to his death, where he was married to Mulija Čabaravdić and had two sons: Amir, film director and architect and Faruk, management consultant.
Death
Muratović died on 14 November 2020, in
Sarajevo
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, as a result of complications caused by
COVID-19
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, amid
its pandemic in Bosnia and Herzegovina.
Awards and orders
Awards
Muratović received a number of awards and achievements for his work in academic, political and business fields. Among many others, he received the Golden Plaque of FAMOS in 1987, the
Sixth April Award of Sarajevo
The Sixth of April Sarajevo Award ( bs, Šestoaprilska nagrada grada Sarajeva / Šestotravanjska nagrada grada Sarajeva – Шестоаприлска награда града Сарајева) is the highest decoration given by the city of Sar ...
in 1990,
the Silver Order from the Presidency of the
Federal Republic of Yugoslavia
Serbia and Montenegro ( sr, Cрбија и Црна Гора, translit=Srbija i Crna Gora) was a country in Southeast Europe located in the Balkans that existed from 1992 to 2006, following the breakup of the Socialist Federal Republic of Yu ...
in 1998, the Croatian
Order of Duke Trpimir
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and two Plaques of the
University of Sarajevo
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in 1999 and in 2006.
Orders
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Croatia
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;
Order of Duke Trpimir
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References
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1940 births
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