Ratko Mitrović
Montenegrin professor and politician
Ratko Mitrović (Serbian Cyrillic: Ратко Митровић; born 1956) is a Montenegrin civil engineer, university professor, scientist and government official, serving as Minister of Ecology, Spatial Planning and Urbanism of Montenegro in the cabinet of Zdravko Krivokapić, since December 2020. In addition to his academic career at the University of Montenegro, he is one of the founders of the non-governmental organization called "We won't give up Montenegro" (Ne damo Crnu Goru), which was founded by Montenegrin professors and intellectuals in support of the Serbian Orthodox Church in Montenegro after a controversial religion law targeted the legal status and the property of the Church.
Early life and education
Mitrović was born in 1956 in Podgorica, Montenegro which at the time was a part of the FPR Yugoslavia. He graduated in 1981 at two departments of the University of Niš's Faculty of Architecture and Civil Engineering, the Department of Construction and Design of multi-storey Buildings and the Department of Construction and Design of Infrastructure Buildings. He then enrolled postgraduate studies at the Faculty of Civil Engineering, University of Belgrade, and defended his master's thesis on the topic of improving the technology of prefabricated building systems in 1991. Mitrović received his doctorate in 1994 at the Technical Faculty of the University of Novi Sad's Department of Management and Construction Technologies, defending his doctoral dissertation called "Technical and technological modeling of organizational structures of construction companies in market conditions." During 1997 and 1998, he attended postdoctoral studies at the public University of Florida.
Career
Professional career
He started his professional career in 1980s as an engineer for the development of new technologies in the General Construction Company in Titograd (now Podgorica), then capital of SR Montenegro of SFR Yugoslavia, where he soon became the head of operations for the construction of high-rise buildings. Then, in 1987, he started working to Montenegro state-owned electricity company (Elektroprivreda Crne Gore) as the chief engineer and construction manager. Between 1991 and 2000, he managed the construction of several residential buildings and cultural institutions in capital Podgorica, as well in several other Montenegrin settlements. He was also the director of the construction of the Serbian Orthodox Cathedral of the Resurrection of Christ in Podgorica, completed in 2013.
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