Predrag Bošković

Predrag Boskovic
Delivering a speech at the United Nations General Assembly (2005)
Minister of Defence
Incumbent
Assumed office 28 November 2016
Prime Minister	Duško Marković
Preceded by	Milica Pejanović-Đurišić
Personal details
Born	March 12, 1972 Pljevlja, SFR Yugoslavia
Spouse(s)	Stela Boskovic
Residence	Podgorica, Montenegro
Occupation	Minister of Defense at the Government of Montenegro; EHF Vice President; President of the Women's Handball Club Buducnost

Predrag Boskovic (born March 12, 1972) is the European Handball Federation Vice President, member of the International Handball Federation Council and the president of the women’s team handball club, Buducnost (European champions in 2012 and 2015). Boskovic is an economist and has been involved in politics since 1997. He was a member of the Montenegrin Parliament, the Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs in the Government of Serbia and Montenegro, Minister of Economy at the Government of Montenegro, Minister of Labor and Social Welfare at the Government of Montenegro and Minister of Education at the Government of Montenegro.

He is the Minister of Defense at the Government of Montenegro.

Predrag Bošković was born in Pljevlja, Yugoslavia, as the second child in the family of Milenko and Milana Bošković. One year before he was born his parents and brother Dragan were supposed to move to Germany, but they ultimately decided to stay in Pljevlja. Father Milenko has greatly influenced Predrag’s life and still remains an important source of his inspiration.

At the age of 7, Bošković moved to Podgorica where he finished both primary and high school. Even though he was keen on pursuing career in electrical engineering, he graduated in 1996 from the Faculty of Economics at the University of Montenegro. As a student he was actively involved in the work of the Entrepreneurial club at the Faculty of Economics.

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He started his academic career as a Teaching Assistant at the Faculty of Economics, University of Montenegro, where he thought courses in Statistics and Econometrics. This is still the main area of his research interests. In 1999, he received his master's degree at the Faculty of Economics, University of Belgrade.

Bošković successfully completed many educational trainings in the areas of economics and econometrics. The most important training was the one on the Time series and predictions of election results, organized by the Central European University (CEU) in Budapest in October 1997.

Before devoting most of the time to his political career he published several papers in both domestic and international journals.

Bošković became a member of the Democratic Party of Socialists (DPS) in 1997, and was the president of the DPS Youth club from 1998-2002. Achieved results recommended him for the later responsible positions in Montenegrin politics.