Obrad Piljak
Obrad Piljak | |
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9th President of the Presidency of SR Bosnia and Herzegovina | |
In office April 1989 – 20 December 1990 | |
Prime Minister | Marko Ćeranić |
Preceded by | Nikola Filipović |
Succeeded by | Alija Izetbegović |
Personal details | |
Born | Petrovo Vrelo, Glamoč, Vrbas Banate, Kingdom of Yugoslavia | 4 December 1933
Died | 1 April 2013 | (aged 79)
Political party | SKJ |
Occupation | Politician |
Obrad Piljak (Bosnian pronunciation: [ǒbraːt pǐːʎak]);[1] 4 December 1933[2] – 7 April 2013) was a Bosnian politician and the former chairman of the Presidency of Bosnia and Herzegovina, who served his term from April 1989 to December 1990. He was the last person to be a nominated (non-elected) member of the Communist party of Bosnia and Herzegovina that served as the president/chairman, before the first multi-party elections were held in 1990. Alija Izetbegović soon replaced him in his post.
Obrad Piljak was born in 1933 in Petrovo Vrelo, Glamoč. He holds a Ph.D. degree in economics. Before his political era, he worked at the banking sector with the Central Bank of Bosnia and Herzegovina.
Piljak was also a part of the advisory board of the Federal Banking Agency of Bosnia and Herzegovina. He was a former associate professor at the Faculty of economics in the University of Sarajevo. Piljak died in 2013, aged 79.[3]
References
[edit]- ^ Obrad in isolation: [ǒbraːd].
- ^ https://www.ancestry.ca/genealogy/records/obrad-piljak-24-1182sl7 [bare URL]
- ^ "Sedam dana i ljudi". Slobodna Bosna. 13 April 2013. Retrieved 11 June 2016.
- Countries Ba-Bo. Rulers.org. Accessed 2010-01-21.
- DECISION ON ADMISSIBILITY AND MERITS Archived 5 March 2016 at the Wayback Machine. HUMAN RIGHTS CHAMBER FOR BOSNIA AND HERZEGOVINA. 2000-06-09. Accessed 2010-01-21.
- CENTRAL BANK OF BH, Volume 4, Issue 6, June 2001. Central Bank of Bosnia and Herzegovina. Accessed 2011-01-21.