Hidajet Biščević, Date of Birth, Place of Birth

Hidajet Biščević

Croatian diplomat and journalist

Date of Birth: 18-Sep-1951

Place of Birth: Sarajevo, Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bosnia and Herzegovina

Profession: diplomat, journalist

Nationality: Bosnia and Herzegovina

Zodiac Sign: Virgo

Hidajet "Hido" Bišcevic (born 18 September 1951, Sarajevo) is a Croatian diplomat, former Secretary General of the Regional Cooperation Council.
Of Bosnian Muslim descent, he is also a journalist, having been editor-in-chief of the Vjesnik daily from 1990-92, and their foreign affairs editor from 1985-89, as well as an author of several books on international relations, concerning the breakup of Yugoslavia, the Iranian Revolution and the Iran–Iraq War.Bišcevic graduated from the Faculty of Political Sciences at the University of Zagreb.
After working at the state-owned Vjesnik daily newspaper in the 1980s and early 1990s, Bišcevic joined the Croatian diplomatic service in 1992, and was initially named Head of Department for Asian and Arab Countries at the Croatian Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Adviser to the Foreign Minister.From 1993-95, he was Croatia's ambassador to Turkey, after which he was appointed as Assistant Minister for Foreign Affairs (1995-97), before serving as ambassador to the Russia (1997-2002).
Upon returning from Moscow, he served as the State Secretary for Political Affairs at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs from 2003-07.On 10 May 2007, at the Southeast European Cooperation Process (SEECP) Foreign Ministers summit in Zagreb, he was appointed the first Secretary General of the newly established Regional Cooperation Council (RCC), and his term officially began on 1 January 2008.