Ivo Miro Jović

Former member of the Presidency of Bosnia and Herzegovina (BiH) Ivo Miro Jović was born in 1950 in Trebižat near Čapljina. He graduated in 1975 from the Faculty of Philosophy in Sarajevo, and in 2010 he obtained a master's degree from the Faculty of Law at the University "Apeiron" in Banja Luka. Two years later, he also became a Doctor of Science. He is married to Lucija with whom he has three children.

He was the principal of a high school in Kiseljak from 1992 to 2003. He began his career in institutions in 1997 as Deputy Minister of Education, Science, Culture, and Sports in the Government of the Central Bosnia Canton, and two years later he was appointed to the same position in the Government of the Federation of BiH.

After the general elections in 2002, he was elected to the House of Representatives of the Parliamentary Assembly of BiH instead of Niko Lozančić who became the President of the Federation of BiH. A year later, Jović became a member of the Presidency of Bosnia and Herzegovina. In that position, he succeeded Dragan Čović who was removed by the High Representative Paddy Ashdown. Ivo Miro Jović was the presidential candidate of HDZBiH in the general elections of 2006, but he did not win enough votes. In the following four years, he was a delegate in the House of Peoples of the Parliamentary Assembly of BiH. After the end of that mandate, he was engaged as an advisor to the Chairman of the Assembly of the Central Bosnia Canton, and from 2013 to 2015, he was an advisor to the Minister of Defense of BiH, Marina Pendeš. Since 2015, he has been an assistant professor and is dedicated to academic life.