Milan Jelić

Milan Jelić (Serbian Cyrillic: Милан Јелић; 26 March 1956 – 30 September 2007) was a Bosnian Serb politician who served as the 6th president of Republika Srpska from 2006 until his death in 2007.

[1] Born near Modriča, Jelić completed his secondary education in Doboj and has graduated from the University of Novi Sad Faculty of Economics at Subotica, Serbia.

Jelić spent four years on the local council in Modriča, and at the beginning of 1987 he was appointed manager of OOUR in the town.

After the Dayton Agreement was signed he was elected to the National Assembly of Republika Srpska.

On the afternoon of 30 September 2007, during his usual training session in Modriča,[2] Jelić experienced heart failure, and died shortly afterwards, after an unsuccessful resuscitation attempt in a Doboj hospital.