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MINISTER BOŽO BIŠKUPIĆ
 Božo Biškupić, born in 1938, Minister of Culture of the Republic of Croatia in the third mandate, received his master's degree in Museology after completing Faculty of Law at the University of Zagreb.
Mr Biškupić became a member of Croatian Democratic Union (HDZ) in 1990, and since then has held several prominent positions within the party (Secretary for International Relations, member of the HDZ Presidency and member of HDZ National Council). In 2004 Mr Biškupić became the President of the Government’s Committee for Relations with Religious Communities.
His professional career includes the foundation of the Biškupić Collection in 1964 and he has since then published and edited more than a hundred literary and fine art bibliophile editions of domestic and foreign authors. He has researched and documented the opuses of prominent Croatian artists and published articles in most prominent professional journals. Mr Biškupić is member of the Croatian Association of Artists of Applied Arts, the Designers' Association, Croatian Ex libris Society, the Company of Brothers of the Croatian Dragon, Matrix Croatica and Croatian Association of Art Historians.
Mr Biškupić is the recipient of numerous national and international awards; such as the most important Croatian award in the field of culture - Annual Vladimir Nazor Award in 1993, and UNESCO’s medal for promoting the ideals of the Organisation in 2006.
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