Elmedin Konaković is a Bosnian politician serving as Minister of Foreign Affairs since January 2023. He obtained a Master of Arts degree in Sports Management from the University of Sarajevo. Mr. Konaković became politically engaged in 2004, when he was elected to the Municipal Council of the Centar Sarajevo Municipality. From 2010 to 2014, he was elected representative in the Sarajevo Canton Assembly, while from 2018 to 2022, he was both – a Sarajevo Canton Assembly representative (Chairman of the Assembly) and a delegate in the House of Peoples, Parliament of the Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina.
Between 2015 and 2018, Mr. Konaković served as the Prime Minister of Canton Sarajevo and in 2018 he founded the political party People and Justice, being elected as the Party President. His mandate was confirmed in November 2021 at the Party’s First Congress. At the General Elections 2022 in Bosnia and Herzegovina, he was elected to the House of Representatives of the Parliament of the Federation.