Born on December 14, 1952 in Srebrenica. Elementary and secondary education completed in his hometown.
From the Faculty of Mechanical Engineering of the University in Maribor, Slovenia, in 1979 he received bachelor degree in mechanical engineering.

Earned Master’s degree in Business Administration and Financial Management at CBA Academy, Zagreb in 2005. Also earned Master's degree in economic studies at the European University in Belgrade in 2006. Doctorate dissertation is to be assessed in May 2011 at the European University in Belgrade.

Used to be employed with the High Schools Center in Bratunac as teacher since 1979. After he served his military service in 1980, in 1981 he gets employed with the company „Energoinvest“ Sarajevo - Factory of Car Batteries Srebrenica, working as senior associate, technologist-constructor, then as Director of the Maintenance Service and Assistant Director for Development until 1983.

Duty of the Director of the Factory of Tin Containers („Fabrika limene ambalaže“) Srebrenica, under holding company „UPI“ Sarajevo, performed since 1983 until 1992. In the period between 1992 and 1996 held the position of the Director in the company „Corad“LLC Bajina Bašta.

In 1996 he was appointed a member of the Managing Board of the company Elektroprivreda (electrical utility) of Republika Srpska, holding this position for two years. In the period between 1998 and 2000 he reinstated on the position of the Director of the Factory of Tin Containers („Fabrika limene ambalaže“) Srebrenica. In 2000 he was appointed the Chairman of the Municipal Council of the Municipality Srebrenica and carries out this position until 2002. Since 2000 he used to be Committee Member in the Assembly of Municipality Srebrenica. For the mandate period 2002 – 2006 he was appointed Vice-President of the Federation B&H. He was Representative in the House of the Representatives of the Parliament of the Federation B&H since 2006, and Minister of Trade in the Government of the Federation B&H from 2007 until 2011. On March 17, 2011 appointed to position of the Minister of Physical Planning in the Government of the Federation B&H.

Worked on various projects as follows: Return Project of Bosniak people to Srebrenica, UNDP Projects implementation in Srebrenica, Implementation of projects for economic development of the Federation B&H, Implementation of projects of the Dutch, Government for assistance and development of Srebrenica Municipality, Social Involvement Project, Ireland, Renewing Sources of Energy Project, Germany, Projects for finalizing of documentation and its implementation of factories such as: Energoinvest Sarajevo, 11. mart, Sarajevo, UPI Sarajevo. Finalizing projects of production and financial documentation for various companies, as well as many other projects.

Attended numerous profession-related and scientific seminars home and abroad in area of economics.

Holds the Certificate on successfully completed training course in area of business plan preparation. For several times he was awarded acknowledgements for rationalization of the production processes in the “Energoinvest” Sarajevo and “UPI” Sarajevo, as well as other recognitions from the community for his contributions to development of the Municipality Srebrenica.

Actively speaks English. Has passive knowledge of German.
Actively uses MS Office (Word, Excel, and PowerPoint) and Internet applications.