Nikola Kljusev
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Nikola Kljusev | |
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Никола Кљусев | |
 Nikola Kljusev as prime minister promoting the first Macedonian currency in 1992 | |
| Prime Minister of Macedonia | |
| In office March 20, 1991 – September 4, 1992 | |
| President | Kiro Gligorov |
| Preceded by | None |
| Succeeded by | Branko Crvenkovski |
| Personal details | |
| Born | October 2, 1927 Štip, Kingdom of Serbs, Croats, and Slovenes |
| Died | January 16, 2008 (aged 80) Skopje, Macedonia |
| Party | VMRO-DPMNE (1997) |
Nikola Kljusev (Macedonian: Никола Кљусев; October 2, 1927 – January 16, 2008) was a Macedonian politician and professor of economics who served as the first Prime Minister of the Republic of Macedonia (now North Macedonia) from March 20, 1991, to September 4, 1992, following the country's independence from Yugoslavia in 1991.
Nikola Kljusev was born in Štip, Kingdom of Serbs, Croats, and Slovenes (now North Macedonia), on October 2, 1927.[1] Kljusev was imprisoned in Goli Otok.[2] He graduated from the University of Belgrade's Faculty of Economics in 1953, before obtaining his doctorate in economics at the same university in 1964.[1] He was the best man of Jordan Mijalkov, the first interior minister of Macedonia.[3][4]
Economics
After graduating, Kljusev began his career as an assistant at the Institute for Industrial Scientific Research. In 1961, he switched to the Economics Institute in Skopje and later served as its director.[5] Kljusev became an associate professor of the University of Skopje's Faculty of Economics in 1968 before becoming a regular professor in 1972. He became the dean of the faculty in 1985, serving until 1987. Kljusev was elected as a member of the Macedonian Academy of Arts and Sciences (MANU) in 1988,[1] presiding over the Council of Demographic Research. He authored the books Koristenje na proizvodnite kapaciteti vo industrijata na SR Makedonija (The utilization of SR Macedonian industrial capacity; 1967) and Efektivnost na investicite vo industrijata na SR Makedonija (The productivity of industrial investments in SR Macedonia; 1969), and co-authored Ekonomske funkcije federacije (Economic functions of the federation; 1970), Antiteza (Anti-thesis; 1994), and Pogledi i promeni (Views and changes; 1995).[6]
