Igor Crnadak | |
Office: | Member of the National Assembly of Republika Srpska |
Term Start: | 23 December 2019 |
Office1: | Minister of Foreign Affairs |
Term Start1: | 31 March 2015 |
Term End1: | 23 December 2019 |
Primeminister1: | Denis Zvizdić |
Predecessor1: | Zlatko Lagumdžija |
Successor1: | Bisera Turković |
Birth Date: | 28 July 1972 |
Birth Place: | Zadar, SR Croatia, SFR Yugoslavia |
Nationality: | Bosnian Serb |
Spouse: | Đurđica Crnadak |
Children: | 2 |
Alma Mater: | University of Banja Luka (BEc) |
Igor Crnadak (born 28 July 1972) is a Bosnian Serb politician who served as Minister of Foreign Affairs from 2015 to 2019. He has been serving as member of the National Assembly of Republika Srpska since 2019.
Crnadak has been a member of the Party of Democratic Progress since its foundation in 1999, and is its current vice-president.[1]
Coming from a Bosnian Serb family, Crnadak was born in Zadar and attended high school in Banja Luka. In 2004, he graduated from the Faculty of Economics at the University of Banja Luka.
In his early career, Crnadak worked as journalist, anchor, producer and radio editor and wrote for numerous printed media. He worked as an anchor at a private radio in Banja Luka during the Bosnian War. Between 1996 and 1998, he was a correspondent for the Voice of America based in Banja Luka.[1]
Since 1999, Crnadak has been a member of the Party of Democratic Progress (PDP) and has held numerous positions within the party. From 2000 to 2004, he was head of the PDP in the City Assembly of Banjaluka. He was a member of the European Integration Committee of the National Assembly of Republika Srpska in 2006. Since 2015, he has been vice-president of the PDP.[2]
From 2007 until 2009, Crnadak was deputy Minister of Defence and was responsible for the Bosnian NATO Coordination Team. On 31 March 2015, he was appointed Minister of Foreign Affairs.[1] His term as Minister ended on 23 December 2019.[1]
Igor is married to Đurđica Crnadak and together they have two children.[2] He speaks English fluently.[1]
Crnadak is well known for suffering from strabismus.[3]