Kemal Kapetanović

Globally recognised metallurgy expert and visionary. He was engineer, university professor, expert to the UN and held dozens of important roles within the former Yugoslavia and European community. Kapetanovic graduated metallurgy in Leoben, Austria in 1944 within record time. He founded the Metallurgical Institute in Zenica in 1961 and grew the organisation to more than 300 employees. In 1965 he attained his Ph.D. from the University of Ljubljana. He was a member of the Committee for Casting and Crystallization of the Coal and Steel Community of the European Economic Community. On behalf of the UN, he conducted expert missions as advisers in Egypt, Turkey, Nigeria and Pakistan. He spoke numerous languages: German, English, French and Russian.