Fatmir Besimi

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Fatmir Besimi
Minister of Finance in North Macedonia
Incumbent
Assumed office 30 August 2020
Preceded by	Nina Angelovska
Deputy Prime Minister of the Government of the Republic of Macedonia in charge of European Affairs
In office 18 February 2013 – 4 April 2016[1]
Minister of Defence
In office 28 July 2011 – 18 February 2013
Preceded by	Zoran Konjanovski [mk]
Succeeded by	Talat Xhaferi
Personal details
Born	(1975-11-18) 18 November 1975 (age 48) Tetovo, SR Macedonia, SFR Yugoslavia (now North Macedonia)
Citizenship	Macedonian
Political party	Democratic Union for Integration
Ethnicity	Albanian

Fatmir Besimi (Macedonian: Фатмир Бесими; born 18 November 1975) is a Macedonian politician and economist of Albanian ethnicity. He currently served for Minister of Finance in North Macedonia,^[2] He also served twice as Minister of Economy (December 2004 – June 2006 and August 2008 – July 2011) then Minister of Defence (August 2011 – February 2013) and after that he was Deputy Prime Minister of the Government of the Republic of Macedonia in charge of European Affairs (March 2013 – March 2016). In 2010 he was selected as one of the top European Ministers in the group of Young Global Leaders by World Economic Forum.