Hasan Brkić

Brkić was born  in Livno where he attended elementary school. He attended gymnasium in Bihać, Banja Luka and Sarajevo. After graduation from high school, Brkić attended Law School at the University of Belgrade where he graduated in 1937.

During his high school days, he was a member of the Communist Party Youth. During his student days in Belgrade he was prominent in leading the circles of the Revolutionary Students' Movement. He became a member of the Communist Party of Yugoslavia in 1933. As a representative of the University of Belgrade, he participated, along with Ivo Lola Ribar and Veljko Vlahović, on the Congress of World Federation of Students in Prague in 1936. Because of his communist activities during the study, Brkić was repeatedly arrested by the police. 

After the outbreak of the April War in 1941, he was mobilized and the capitulation of the Yugoslav royal army found him in Sinj. From there, he returned to his native Livno, where he participated in the work of the local party organization, and then returned to Sarajevo and participated in the preparations for the armed uprising in Bosnia and Herzegovina.

After the liberation of Yugoslavia, he was Minister of Finance in the first Government of the People's Republic of Bosnia and Herzegovina, State Secretary of National Economy and State Undersecretary for Foreign Affairs in the Government of the FNRJ. From 1958 to 1961, he was the secretary for industry of the Federal Executive Council, from 1961 to 1963, vice president of the Executive Council of BiH, and from 1963 until his death, president of the Executive Council of the Socialist Republic of Bosnia and Herzegovina.