Obrad Piljak is a Bosnia

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n politician and former Chairman of the Presidency

Presidency of Bosnia and Herzegovina

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 of Bosnia and Herzegovina

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, from April 1989 to December 1990. He was the last nominated (non-elected) member of the Communist party of Bosnia and Herzegovina

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 to serve as Presidency chairman, before the first multi-party elections were held in 1990 and Alija Izetbegovic

Alija Izetbegovic

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 replaced him in his post.

Obrad Piljak was born in 1933 in Petrovo Vrelo, Glamoč

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. He holds a Ph.D. degree in economics

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. When not in politics, he was involved with banking and worked at the Central Bank of Bosnia and Herzegovina

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Currently, he is a Member of the Advisory Board of the Federal Banking Agency of Bosnia and Herzegovina. He is also an associate professor at the Faculty of economics in Sarajevo

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