Edin Forto
Edin Forto | |||||||||||||
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Forto in 2023 | |||||||||||||
| Minister of Communication and Traffic | |||||||||||||
| Assumed office 25 January 2023 | |||||||||||||
| Prime Minister | Borjana Krišto | ||||||||||||
| Preceded by | Vojin Mitrović | ||||||||||||
| Prime Minister of Sarajevo Canton | |||||||||||||
| In office 5 January 2021 – 25 January 2023 | |||||||||||||
| Preceded by | Mario Nenadić | ||||||||||||
| Succeeded by | Darja Softić-Kadenić (acting) Nihad Uk | ||||||||||||
| In office 26 December 2018 – 3 March 2020 | |||||||||||||
| Preceded by | Adem Zolj | ||||||||||||
| Succeeded by | Mario Nenadić | ||||||||||||
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| Born | 16 August 1972 | ||||||||||||
| Party | Our Party (since 2009) | ||||||||||||
| Spouse |
Emina Šehagić (m. 2014) | ||||||||||||
| Children | 2 | ||||||||||||
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Edin Forto (born 16 August 1972) is a Bosnian politician serving as the Minister of Communication and Traffic since January 2023. He previously served as Prime Minister of Sarajevo Canton from 2018 to 2020 and again from 2021 to 2023. He was president of Our Party from 2021 to 2025.
Born in Sarajevo in 1972, Forto worked as an amateur journalist during the Bosnian War. He later graduated from UNC-Chapel Hill, and earned a master's degree from Columbia University in 2001. He worked at Eurasia Group, before returning to Sarajevo and working in executive positions in a number of companies.
A member of Our Party since 2009, Forto was elected to the Sarajevo Canton Assembly in the 2014 general election, serving until 2018. He was simultaneously a member of the Federal House of Peoples from 2015 to 2018. In September 2021, he was elected president of Our Party for a four-year term. Following the 2022 general election, Forto was appointed Minister of Communication and Traffic in the Fourteenth Council of Ministers of Bosnia and Herzegovina.