Bisera Turković

Bisera Turković (born 8 December 1954) is a Bosnian diplomat and politician who is the 7th and current Minister of Foreign Affairs. She is also the current Vice-Chairwoman of the Council of Ministers of Bosnia and Herzegovina, serving alongside Vjekoslav Bevanda.

Turković served as the Bosnia and Herzegovina Ambassdor to the United States and to Qatar as well.

Born in Travnik, Turković holds a degree in Law from the University of Sarajevoand a bachelor in Criminal Justice Administration from the Philip Institute of Technology in Melbourne. She did her post graduate studies in Criminology at LaTrobe University in Melbourne and holds a Ph.D. in International Relations from Pacific Western University, a former for-profit university in San Diego, California.

In the early 1990s she worked as chief editor for TV Hayat.She was the first bilateral ambassador appointed in the history of independent Bosnia and Herzegovina. Her first assignments as ambassador were to Croatia (1993–1994), Hungary (1994–1996), and at Bosnia and Herzegovina's Permanent Mission to the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe in Vienna (1996 to 2000). From 2000 to 2001, Turković was appointed Minister for European Integration of Bosnia and Herzegovina.

From 2001 to 2004, she worked as Executive Director of the Centre for Security Studies in Bosnia and Herzegovina, as well as a lecturer at the Faculty of Criminal Justice, University of Sarajevo. Turkovic has also given lectures at the University of Sarajevo, Webster University, the International University of Sarajevo and the University of Travnik as well as at George Washington university and at other internationally renowned universities.

From 2004 to 2005 she served at Bosnia and Herzegovina's Permanent Mission to the United Nations in Viennaand as Ambassador to the International Atomic Energy Agency, the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty Organization, and the United Nations Industrial Development Organization. From 2005 to 2009 she served as Bosnia and Herzegovina's ambassador to the United States, Mexico and Brazil. Her next diplomatic postings were in Brussels as bilateral ambassador to Belgium and Luxembourg, as well as in Qatar since September 2018.

In December 2019, she was appointed by the Party of Democratic Action (SDA) as Minister of Foreign Affairs and also as Vice-Chairwoman of the Council of Ministers of Bosnia and Herzegovina. She is the only SDA Minister in the government, and the first woman to serve as foreign minister and Vice-Chairman of the country.