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Ejup Ganić

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Ejup Ganić
ChancellorofSarajevo School of Science and Technology
Assumed office
1 October 2004
PresidentofFederation of Bosnia and Herzegovina
In office
29 December 1997 – 1 January 2001
Vice PresidentVladimir Šoljić
Preceded byVladimir Šoljić
Other Member ofPresidencyof theRepublic of Bosnia and Herzegovina
In office
1990–1996
Personal details
Born(1946-03-03)3 March 1946(age 78)
Novi Pazar,SR Serbia,SFR Yugoslavia
Political partyParty of Democratic Action(1990−2000)

Ejup Ganić(born 3 March 1946) is aBosnianengineer and politician who is the founder andchancellorofSarajevo School of Science and Technology.

He served one term asPresident of the Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovinafrom 1997 to 2001. He holds aScD(doctor of science) fromMassachusetts Institute of Technology.

Early life[edit]

Ganić was born in Sebečevo village nearNovi Pazarmunicipality in theSandžakgeographical region ofSerbia,thenYugoslavia.He is the founder and currentpresidentofSarajevo School of Science and Technology[1]and a regular professor ofengineering scienceat the school.

Political career[edit]

During theBosnian War,he was part of thePresidency of Bosnia and Herzegovina.He was a member of theParty of Democratic Action(SDA; 1990−2000). During the war, the Bosnian government and SDA was divided into two groups, one that looked to the West, and the other, called theSandžak faction,hardliners that wished to take on all.[2]Another division was between the secularists and conservatists.[2]Ganić was part of theSandžak factionand conservatists.[2]

During early talks of thepartition of Bosnia and Herzegovina,he remarked that the Bosniaks "are Islamized Serbs", and should thus join the Serb side, at a time when the SDA shifted in favour of siding with the Serbs and continuing struggling against the Croats.[3]

He wasPresident of the Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovinafrom 1997 to 2001. He also served as theVice-President of the Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina1994-1997.

Education and occupations[edit]

Dr. Ganić has a ScD. inEngineering SciencefromMassachusetts Institute of Technology.

Dr. Ganić also worked as an assistant researcher atMassachusetts Institute of Technology,assistant lecturer atNew York UniversityandUniversity of Chicago,lecturer atUniversity of Illinois at Chicago,director of UNIS Institute (Sarajevo,Bosnia and Herzegovina) and guest lecturer atLomonosov Moscow State University.[citation needed]

Dr. Ganić published over one hundred publications, among them books such asHandbook of Heat Transfer Fundamentals,Experimental Heat TransferandEngineering Turbulence Modelling and Measurements.In 2002, he published a book calledEngineering Companion,published byMcGraw-Hill.[4]He is a member of theAmerican Nuclear Societyand many other professional societies.

Personal life[edit]

Ejup Ganić is married and has two children.[citation needed]

Citizenship[edit]

Ejup Ganić was a citizen of Serbia by birth. Ganić has been living in Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina since 1981, and as such is also a citizen of Bosnia since that time.

Arrest and release[edit]

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On 1 March 2010 Ganić was arrested atHeathrow AirportinLondonafter Serbian judicial authorities issued an extradition warrant.[5]He was accused of conspiracy to murder 40Yugoslav People's Army(JNA) soldiers in theDobrovoljačka Street attackin May 1992.[6][7]He was released on 12 March afterSanela Diana Jenkinshad paid his bail. Judge John Laws remarked that the arrest warrant by Serbia was politically motivated and therefore granted Ganić bail.[8]It was also claimed by Ganić's defence lawyers that Serbia had yet to produce any real evidence, and that most of their supposed evidence was made up of news articles regarding the Dobrovoljačka incident.[9]However, the Serbian prosecutor's office claims that the case contains additional evidence.[10]On 27 July 2010, theCity of Westminster Magistrates' Courtblocked his extradition and released him, the judge saying that he was led to believe the extradition proceedings were "brought and [were] being used for political purposes, and as such amount to an abuse of the process of this court".[11][12]Marko Attila Hoare, a leading scholarly expert on Bosnian history, wrote this after British authorities detained Ganic: "This incident demonstrates that Serbia is still very far from showing repentance for its aggression against Bosnia during the 1990s. On the contrary, with the arrest of Ganic, Serbia is continuing this aggression, by attempting to persecute Bosnians guilty only of trying to defend their country from it."[13]

References[edit]

  1. ^"Dobrodošli na SSST".Ssst.edu.ba.Retrieved2011-03-02.
  2. ^abcSteven L. Burg; Paul Shoup (1999).The War in Bosnia-Herzegovina: Ethnic Conflict and International Intervention.M.E. Sharpe. pp.194–.ISBN978-1-56324-308-0.
  3. ^Steven L. Burg; Paul S. Shoup (4 March 2015).Ethnic Conflict and International Intervention: Crisis in Bosnia-Herzegovina, 1990-93: Crisis in Bosnia-Herzegovina, 1990-93.Taylor & Francis. p. 341.ISBN978-1-317-47101-1.
  4. ^"McGraw-Hill's Engineering Companion by Ejup N. Ganić - Reviews, Discussion, Bookclubs, Lists".Goodreads. 2002-09-23.Retrieved2011-03-02.
  5. ^Milmo, Cahal (20 March 2010)."Ejup Ganic: war criminal or just a political pawn?".The Independent.London.Retrieved20 March2010.
  6. ^"Bosnian war leader arrested in UK".BBC News.2010-03-01.Retrieved2010-05-01.
  7. ^"Does Serbia really want Ganic? | TransConflict | Transform, Transcend, Translate - TransConflict Serbia".TransConflict.Retrieved2011-03-02.
  8. ^"Ejup Ganić pušten da se brani sa slobode".Sarajevo-x. Archived fromthe originalon 2010-06-16.Retrieved2011-03-02.
  9. ^""Srbija dostavila sudu novinske članke o 'Dobrovoljačkoj'" ".Sarajevo-x. Archived fromthe originalon 2010-06-14.Retrieved2011-03-02.
  10. ^"Serbia pushes again for Ganic extradition".UPI. 2010-03-26.Retrieved2011-03-02.
  11. ^Republic of Serbia v Ganic[2010] EW Misc 11 (EWMC) (27 July 2010)
  12. ^Synovitz, Ron (28 July 2010)."Former Bosnian Leader Returns To Sarajevo After U.K. Rejects Serbian Extradition".Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty.Retrieved29 July2010.
  13. ^Hoare blog post, 4 March 2010:http:// bosnia.org.uk/news/news_body.cfm?newsid=2689

External links[edit]

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