Bogoljub Šijaković Ph. D., Born in Nikšić, Montenegro in 1955, where he finished primary school (1970) grammar school (1974). He graduated (1981) and obtained a master’s degree in philosophy at the Faculty of Philosophy at Belgrade University (1986); he took his PhD in philosophy at the Faculty of Philosophy in Sarajevo in 1989. He received advanced training in Germany and Greece and he works as a professor of philosophy at the Faculty of Nikšić, Montenegro. Since October 2000 he has became the Federal Minister of Religion. He is married and has two children.