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Dragan Mektić

Dragan Mektić
5th Minister of Security of Bosnia and Herzegovina
Assumed office
31 January 2015
Prime Minister Denis Zvizdić
Deputy Mijo Krešić
Preceded by Fahrudin Radončić
1st Deputy Minister of Security of Bosnia and Herzegovina
In office
23 December 2002 – 11 January 2007
Preceded by Office established
Succeeded by Mijo Krešić
Personal details
Born (1956-12-24) 24 December 1956 (age 61)
Prnjavor, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Yugoslavia
Citizenship Bosnia and Herzegovina
Serbia
Nationality Serb
Political party Serb Democratic Party
Alma mater University of Zagreb

Dragan Mektić (born in Prnjavor on 24 December 1956) is a Bosnian Serb politician and criminal investigator. He is a member of the Serb Democratic Party (SDS) and since 31 March 2015 serves as the Minister of Security of Bosnia and Herzegovina.

Mektić completed an engineering high school in the Bosnian city of Banja Luka, after which he completed a higher administrative school, and graduated in Criminal Justice from the University of Zagreb.

From 1980 to 1997 Mektić directed a police station, where he was engaged in suppressing general and financial crime. Then, from 1997 to 2003, Mektić was employed in the intelligence sector of Bosnia and Herzegovina. From 2002 to 2007 he was deputy of the then security minister Bariša Čolak, followed by nine years, from 2006 to 2015, as director of the Service for Foreigners' Affairs of Bosnia and Herzegovina.

On 31 March 2015 Mektić was appointed Minister of Security of Bosnia and Herzegovina as part of the government led by Denis Zvizdić.


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