Nikola Špirić, Date of Birth, Place of Birth

Nikola Špirić

Bosnian politician

Date of Birth: 04-Sep-1956

Place of Birth: Drvar, Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bosnia and Herzegovina

Profession: politician, economist, university teacher

Nationality: Bosnia and Herzegovina

Zodiac Sign: Virgo

Nikola Špiric (Serbian Cyrillic: ?????? ??????, pronounced [nikola ?pi?rit??]; born 4 September 1956) is a Bosnian Serb politician and the Chairman of the Council of Ministers of Bosnia and Herzegovina from 2007 until 2012. He completed elementary education in Drvar, high school in Sarajevo, and his undergraduate and postgraduate education at the University of Sarajevo.
He holds a Ph.D.
in economics.
His doctoral thesis was in monetary and public finance.
Špiric has been an economics professor at the University of Banja Luka since 1992.
He held a number of governmental positions including a 4-year term as a representative at the Parliamentary Assembly of Bosnia and Herzegovina.
He was Chairman of the House of Peoples in 2002–2003 and Chairman of the House of Representatives in 2003–2004 and 2005–2006.
On 1 November 2007 Špiric tendered his resignation in protest of parliamentary reforms imposed by High Representative Miroslav Lajcák.
Špiric felt that the reforms would reduce the influence of Bosnia's Serb population.
The resignation was deemed by some to be the country's most serious crisis since the end of the Bosnian War.
After the crisis was resolved, he was renominated for the Chairman's post on 10 December 2007, confirmed by the presidency on 27 December 2007 and by parliament on 28 December 2007.