Petar Škundrić ( sr-cyr, Петар Шкундрић; born 21 February 1947) is a Serbian politician. He was a member of the

Socialist Party of Serbia The Socialist Party of Serbia (, abbr. SPS) is a populist political party in Serbia. Ivica Dačić has led SPS as its president since 2006. SPS was founded in 1990 as a merger of the League of Communists of Serbia and Socialist Alliance ...

who served as the Minister of Energy and Mining from 2008 to 2011.

Education and career

Škundrić graduated and obtained his masters and PhD degrees at the Faculty of Technology and Metallurgy of the

University of Belgrade The University of Belgrade () is a public university, public research university in Belgrade, Serbia. It is the oldest and largest modern university in Serbia. Founded in 1808 as the Belgrade Higher School in revolutionary Serbia, by 1838 it me ...

. He is professor at the Faculty of Technology and Metallurgy in

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, and honorary professor at the Saint Petersburg State Institute of Technology. He is one of the founding members and first secretary general of the

, and was a member of parliament of the former state union of

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. Presently he is a member of the board of SPS. On 7 July 2008 he was elected Minister of Energy and Mining in the

Government of Serbia The government of Serbia ( sr-cyrl, Влада Србије, Vlada Srbije), formally the Government of the Republic of Serbia ( sr-cyrl, Влада Републике Србије, Vlada Republike Srbije), commonly abbreviated to Serbian Governme ...

, a post he held until March 2011, when the portfolio was split into the Infrastructure and Environment ministries. He was kicked out from the Socialist Party of Serbia after his son arrested at an anti-government protest in July 2019. President of Serbia,

Aleksandar Vučić Aleksandar Vučić, (born 5 March 1970) is a Serbian politician serving as President of Serbia since 2017. A founding member of the Serbian Progressive Party (SNS), he previously served as President of the SNS from 2012 to 2023, Deputy Prim ...

called him a tycoon. Škundrić is married and father of two sons.

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1947 births Living people People from Gračac Serbs of Croatia Government ministers of Serbia Socialist Party of Serbia politicians University of Belgrade alumni Members of the Presidency of the 13th Congress of the League of Communists of Yugoslavia Members of the Central Committee of the 13th Congress of the League of Communists of Yugoslavia {{Serbia-politician-stub