page_title: Predrag Bošković
section_title: Early life and education
hierarchical_section_title: Predrag Bošković / Early life and education
caption_attribution_description: English: Predrag Boskovic delivering the speech at the United Nations General Asembley (2005).
context_page_description: Predrag Bošković is a Montenegrin politician and sports administrator. He is the incumbent Minister of Defence of Montenegro.
  Bošković is an economist and has been involved in politics since 1997. He was a member of the Montenegrin Parliament, the Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs in the Government of Serbia and Montenegro. He served also as Minister of Economy, as Minister of Labor and Social Welfare and as Minister of Education in various Montenegrin governments.
  For his contribution to the Serbian Orthodox Church Bošković was awarded with the Order of St. Sava. He is excommunicated by the Serbian Orthodox Church late December 2019, when he gave support to the newly proclaimed religion law which de-jure transfers the ownership of church buildings and estates from the Serbian Orthodox Church in Montenegro to the Montenegrin state.:" I will be pleased to return award " stated Bošković after the law passed in the Parliament of Montenegro
  Concurrently, he is the Vice-President of the European Handball Federation and member of the International Handball Federation Council.
context_section_description: Predrag Bošković was born in Pljevlja, Yugoslavia, as the second child in the family of Milenko and Milana Bošković.One year before he was born his parents and brother Dragan were supposed to move to Germany, but they ultimately decided to stay in Pljevlja. Father Milenko has greatly influenced Predrag's life and still remains an important source of his inspiration.
  At the age of 7, Bošković moved to Podgorica where he finished both primary and high school. Even though he was keen on pursuing career in electrical engineering, he graduated in 1996 from the Faculty of Economics at the University of Montenegro. As a student he was actively involved in the work of the Entrepreneurial club at the Faculty of Economics.
  He started his academic career as a Teaching Assistant at the Faculty of Economics, University of Montenegro, where he thought courses in Statistics and Econometrics. This is still the main area of his research interests. In 1999, he received his master's degree at the Faculty of Economics, University of Belgrade.
  Bošković successfully completed many educational trainings in the areas of economics and econometrics. The most important training was the one on the Time series and predictions of election results, organized by the Central European University (CEU) in Budapest in October 1997.
  Before devoting most of the time to his political career he published several papers in both domestic and international journals.
caption: Predrag Bošković delivering a speech at the United Nations General Asembly (2005).
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