Ratko Mitrović (Serbian Cyrillic: Ратко Митровић; born 1956) is a Montenegrin civil engineer, university professor, scientist and government official, serving as Minister of Ecology, Spatial Planning and Urbanism of Montenegro in the cabinet of Zdravko Krivokapić, since December 2020.
He then enrolled postgraduate studies at the Faculty of Civil Engineering, University of Belgrade, and defended his master's thesis on the topic of improving the technology of prefabricated building systems in 1991.
Then, in 1987, he started working to Montenegro state-owned electricity company (Elektroprivreda Crne Gore) as the chief engineer and construction manager.
In July 2020, together with Zdravko Krivokapić and several other Montenegrin university professors and intellectuals, he was one of the founders of the Church-backed "We won't give up Montenegro" (Ne damo Crnu Goru) NGO and public movement.
30 August 2020 election resulted in a victory for the opposition parties and the fall from power of the ruling DPS, which has ruled the country since the introduction of the multi-party system in 1990, while the "Ne damo Crnu Goru" and opposition list leader Krivokapić was selected new prime minister-designate of Montenegro by the new parliamentary majority, announcing withdrawal of the disputed law on religious communities.
They said they were revolted by the proposal for Mitrović to head the ecology ministry in the future cabinet, due to his earlier participation in the design of small hydropower plants on mountain rivers in northern Montenegro, against which environmental activists have been protesting for decades.
[10] Mitrović later said that his statement was "clumsily made" and that his son, who is the owner, had previously submitted a request for the legalization of the house, long before he become minister.