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Ejup Ganić
Chancellor of the Sarajevo School of Science and Technology
Incumbent
Assumed office
1 October 2004
President of the Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina
In office
1 January 2000 – 1 January 2001
Preceded byIvo Andrić-Lužanski
Succeeded byIvo Andrić-Lužanski
In office
29 December 1997 – 1 January 1999
Preceded byVladimir Šoljić
Succeeded byIvo Andrić-Lužanski
Member of the Presidency of the Republic of Bosnia and Herzegovina
In office
20 December 1990 – 5 October 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)
Alma mater

Ejup Ganić (born 3 March 1946) is a Bosnian engineer, politician and academic who served as President of the Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina from 1997 to 1999 and from 2000 to 2001. A former member of the Party of Democratic Action, he also served as member of the Presidency of the Republic of Bosnia and Herzegovina from 1990 to 1996.

Ganić holds an ScD from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He is the founder and current chancellor of the Sarajevo School of Science and Technology.

Early life and education

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Ganić was born on 3 March 1946 in Sebečevo village near Novi Pazar in the Sandžak geographical region of Serbia, then a part of SFR Yugoslavia. He graduated from the University of Belgrade, and holds an ScD in engineering science from the prestigious Massachusetts Institute of Technology.[1]

Political career

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During the Bosnian War, Ganić served in the Presidency of the Republic of Bosnia and Herzegovina. He was a member of the Party of Democratic Action (SDA) between 1990 and 2000. During the war, the Bosnian government and the SDA were divided into two groups, one that looked to the West, and the other, called the Sandžak faction, hardliners that wished to take on all.[2] Another division was between the secularists and conservatists.[2] Ganić was part of the Sandžak faction and the conservatists.[2]

During early talks of the partition of Bosnia and Herzegovina, Ganić 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] Following the war, Ganić served as Vice-President, and then as President of the Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina from 1997 to 1999, and again from 2000 to 2001.

Academic career

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Ganić is the founder and current chancellor of the Sarajevo School of Science and Technology,[1] as well as a regular professor of engineering science at the university. He also worked as an assistant researcher at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, assistant lecturer at New York University and the University of Chicago, lecturer at University of Illinois Chicago, director of the Sarajevo-based UNIS Institute and guest lecturer at the Moscow State University.[citation needed]

Ganić has published over one hundred publications, among them books such as Handbook of Heat Transfer Fundamentals, Experimental Heat Transfer and Engineering Turbulence Modelling and Measurements. In 2002, he published a book called Engineering Companion, published by McGraw Hill.[4] He is a member of the American Nuclear Society and many other professional societies.

Arrest and release

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On 1 March 2010, Ganić was arrested at Heathrow Airport in London after Serbian judicial authorities issued an extradition warrant.[5] He was accused of conspiracy to murder 40 Yugoslav People's Army (JNA) soldiers in the Dobrovoljačka Street attack in May 1992.[6][7] He was released on 12 March after Sanela Diana Jenkins had 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 claimed that the case contained additional evidence.[10]

On 27 July 2010, the City of Westminster Magistrates' Court blocked 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 Ganić: "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 Ganić, Serbia is continuing this aggression, by attempting to persecute Bosnians guilty only of trying to defend their country from it."[13]

References

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  1. ^ a b "Dobrodošli na SSST". Ssst.edu.ba. Retrieved 2 March 2011.
  2. ^ a b c Steven L. Burg; Paul Shoup (1999). The War in Bosnia-Herzegovina: Ethnic Conflict and International Intervention. M.E. Sharpe. pp. 194–. ISBN 978-1-56324-308-0.
  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. ISBN 978-1-317-47101-1.
  4. ^ "McGraw-Hill's Engineering Companion by Ejup N. Ganić - Reviews, Discussion, Bookclubs, Lists". Goodreads.com. 23 September 2002. Retrieved 2 March 2011.
  5. ^ Milmo, Cahal (20 March 2010). "Ejup Ganic: war criminal or just a political pawn?". The Independent. London. Retrieved 20 March 2010.
  6. ^ "Bosnian war leader arrested in UK". BBC News. 1 March 2010. Retrieved 1 May 2010.
  7. ^ "Does Serbia really want Ganic? | TransConflict | Transform, Transcend, Translate - TransConflict Serbia". TransConflict. Retrieved 2 March 2011.
  8. ^ "Ejup Ganić pušten da se brani sa slobode". Sarajevo-x.com. Archived from the original on 16 June 2010. Retrieved 2 March 2011.
  9. ^ ""Srbija dostavila sudu novinske članke o 'Dobrovoljačkoj'"". Sarajevo-x.com. Archived from the original on 14 June 2010. Retrieved 2 March 2011.
  10. ^ "Serbia pushes again for Ganic extradition". UPI.com. 26 March 2010. Retrieved 2 March 2011.
  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. Retrieved 29 July 2010.
  13. ^ Hoare blog post, 4 March 2010: http://www.bosnia.org.uk/news/news_body.cfm?newsid=2689
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