Hari Kostov

4th Prime Minister of MacedoniaIn office
2 June 2004 – 18 November 2004PresidentBranko CrvenkovskiPreceded byRadmila ŠekerinskaSucceeded byVlado BučkovskiMinister of Internal AffairsIn office
1 November 2002 – 2 June 2004Prime MinisterBranko CrvenkovskiPreceded byLjube BoškoskiSucceeded bySiljan AvramovskiGeneral Manager of Komercijalna BankaIn office
1996–2002Assistant Chief Executive Officer in the World BankIn office
1995–1996Vice-Minister of FinanceIn office
1994–1995 Personal detailsBorn
(1959-11-13) 13 November 1959 (age 64)
v.Pisica, Probishtip, SFRY
(now North Macedonia)NationalityVlachPolitical partyAlma materSs. Cyril and Methodius University in Skopje

Hari Kostov (Macedonian: Хари Костов; born 13 November 1959) is a Macedonian politician who served as the Prime Minister of Macedonia^[1] from May 2004 until his resignation in November 2004.

He was appointed to the position of Prime Minister by the parliament on May 31, 2004, two weeks after being nominated by President Branko Crvenkovski. Kostov was an economic advisor to the Macedonian government and the World Bank during the 1980s and 1990s. He was the interior minister in the previous government, which was led by Crvenkovski and lasted from 2002 until 2004, and ended when Crvenkovski was elected president. Kostov retained most officials from the Crvenkovski government.

Kostov announced his resignation on November 15, 2004, following disputes within the coalition government, particularly between ethnic Macedonian and ethnic Albanian ministers. He left office on November 18, 2004, when his resignation was accepted, and was succeeded by the defence minister, Vlado Bučkovski.

Currently, he is chief executive^[2] of the Komercijalna Bank Skopje (Комерцијална Банка Скопје), a position which he also had before entering the Macedonian government.

Kostov is an ethnic Aromanian.^[3][4]

Awards

• (2008) Order of the Holy Macedonian Cross^[5]

References

Political offices
Preceded by Radmila Šekerinska	Prime Minister of the Republic of Macedonia 2004	Succeeded by Vlado Buckovski
Preceded by Ljube Boškoski	Minister of Internal Affairs 2002–2004	Succeeded by Siljan Avramovski