Former Montenegro Foreign Minister, Ambassador to U.S. Joins Global Communicators

Dec. 7, 2011 - PRLog -- WSHINGTON, DC (Dec. 7, 2011) – Former Montenegro Foreign Minister and Ambassador Miodrag Vlahovic, Montenegro’s envoy to the United States, Canada and Iceland from 2006 to 2010 and foreign minister from 2004 to 2006, has joined Global Communicators, LLC’s board of Senior International Advisers.

Jim Harff, Global Communicators president and CEO, said Ambassador Vlahovic has extensive government and business experience in the Balkans, including Croatia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Kosova, Macedonia and Albania in addition to his base in Montenegro.  

“For almost a decade, executives of GC led the 1990s public relations war in the Balkans and participated in rebuilding the regions tourism industry,” Harff said.  “Ambassador Vlahovic was engaged in that battle as well, fighting for freedom and democracy in Montenegro,” then in alliance with the Milosevic regime.  “We are fortunate to have the advice and counsel of this effective, respected leader in the region as we expand our services there,” he said.

Ambassador Vlahovic was a board member of the Open Society Institute Montenegro (2002-04), director of the Center for Regional and Security Studies (1999-present), founding member of the Montenegrin Center for Democracy and Human Rights (1998), columnist for the weekly Monitor (1991-93; 1999-2000), and international secretary of the Liberal Party of Montenegro (1992-93).

In addition, he founded the Citizens Committee for Peace in the Montenegrin Peace Movement, having organized the first peace rally in Montenegro in 1991, and he served as a Member of Parliament from 1992 until he resigned in 1994.

Since 1990, he has been the owner of MConsult Ltd., one of the first private consulting agencies in Montenegro. Ambassador Vlahovic graduated from the Podgorica Law Faculty in 1986, has completed his post-graduate thesis on “Intellectual and Industrial Property Rights and EEC Competition Rules” in Leiden Law School, the Netherlands. He speaks English and Italian.  He is married and has three daughters.