Dražen Bošnjaković | |
Office: | Minister of Justice |
Term Start: | 9 June 2017 |
Term End: | 23 July 2020 |
Primeminister: | Andrej Plenković |
Predecessor: | Ante Šprlje |
Successor: | Ivan Malenica (Minister of Public Administration and Justice) |
Term Start2: | 7 July 2010 |
Term End2: | 23 December 2011 |
Primeminister2: | Jadranka Kosor |
Predecessor2: | Ivan Šimonović |
Successor2: | Orsat Miljenić |
Birth Date: | 6 January 1961 |
Birth Place: | Vukovar, PR Croatia, FPR Yugoslavia |
Nationality: | Croatian |
Party: | Croatian Democratic Union |
Alma Mater: | University of Zagreb |
Children: | 3 |
Dražen Bošnjaković (born 6 January 1961) is a Croatian politician who had served as the Minister of Justice in the cabinet of Andrej Plenković from 2017 to 2020.
Bošnjaković was born in Vukovar in 1961. He lived in Ilok until he was eighteen. He was a good student, and after finishing high school he went to Zagreb and studied at the Law faculty.
On beginning his career Bošnjaković worked in the Council of Ivanić Grad, and from 1993 until 1997 he was a secretary in Sisak-Moslavina County. After that he started his own law firm and worked as a lawyer until entering into politics. He became a member of the Croatian Parliament on December 23, 2003, and served until January 11, 2008. From 2008, he was a state secretary in the Ministry of Justice of Republic of Croatia, and he is a member of the Central Committee of Croatian Democratic Union (HDZ). He is vice-president of the County Committee of HDZ of Zagreb County for then years.
He is married and he is father of three children. He speaks English, and his hobbies are biking, skiing, and tennis.