Prominent Bosnian academic, sociologist and professor Slavo Kukić died today at the age of 71.
Kukić was the author of 18 books – seven textbooks for high schools and colleges, and 11 studies devoted to the analysis of BiH society and the state. He is the author of more than 100 scientific papers.
Slavo Kukić was born in Posušje on July 21, 1954.
He started his working life in 1977 as a professional associate in the Posušje Secondary School, then as the head of the Marxist Center, and since 1980 he has been in education – secondary and then higher education. He worked as a teacher and then as a director at the Secondary School Center in Posušje.
In the middle of 1987, he was elected to the position of President of the Executive Board of the Posušje Municipality, and after that, in 1992, he went to the Faculty of Economics in Mostar, where he has been employed until today.
He was elected to the position of assistant professor in 1987, to the position of associate professor in 1997, and to the position of full professor in 1999.
Alone or in co-authorship, Kukić signed 32 books and studies, among them nine university and three high school textbooks. As a leader or member of an expert team, he also signed twelve projects in the fields of sociology, political science and economics, and worked on one of them, “Early Warning System in Bosnia and Herzegovina”, continuously for five years. In the end, he is the author of over 130 scientific and professional works, published in magazines and anthologies in several world languages, as well as fifty reviews and presentations of the works of other authors.
As an expert of the European Commission, for the past fifteen years, he has also been involved in issues of local self-government development, and his entire working life has been involved in the social and economic life of Bosnia and Herzegovina.
In 2011, he was appointed as the chairman of the Council of Ministers of Bosnia and Herzegovina.
Elected as a corresponding member of the Academy of Sciences and Arts of Bosnia and Herzegovina in 2012, and as a regular member (academic) in 2018, BHRT writes.
