Pavo Barišić
| Pavo Barišić | |
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| Minister of Science and Education | |
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Assumed office 19 October 2016 |
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| President | Kolinda Grabar-Kitarović |
| Prime Minister | Andrej Plenković |
| Preceded by | Predrag Šustar |
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| Born | September 9, 1959 |
| Political party | None |
| Occupation | Philosophy of Law and Politics |
Pavo Barišić (born 9 September 1959) is a Croatian philosopher and politician serving as the Minister of Science and Education in the Cabinet of Andrej Plenković since 19 October 2016. He publishes in the field of philosophy of law, politics and democracy, history of philosophy, and bioethics. He is a member of Croatian Democratic Union.
Pavo Barišić graduated from the University of Zagreb, its Faculty of Law in 1982, and its Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences in 1983. He gained a PhD degree from the University of Augsburg in 1989 with the dissertation Welt und Ethos [World and Ethos].
Since 1986, he has been a research fellow at the Institute of Philosophy in Zagreb, and its director between 1991 and 2001. He was a full professor at the University of Split, where he was head of the Department of Philosophy from 2005 to 2013.
He was an editor-in-chief of the leading Croatian and international philosophical journals Filozofska istraživanja and Synthesis Philosophica. From 2007 to 2009, he was a president of the Croatian Philosophical Society.
From 2014 until 2016 he was a president of the Croatian Humboldt Club. He was a president of the Croatian Pan-European Union for 13 years (2003-2016) and is still Secretary General of the International Pan-European Union.
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