Senad Softić was born on 10 August 1963. He is Doctor of Economics and since 2007 he has been working at the School of Economics and Business, University of Sarajevo, at first, as assistant professor and thenas a senior assistant professor, and afterwards, as part time professor, too. In the sametime, he has been theHead of Master Studies at Sarajevo School of Economics and Business and Zagreb Faculty of Economics and Business, course of Crises Management. He achieved the academic title Ph.D. in Economics at the School of Economics and Business on 2010, and defended the Master Degree atthe same faculty on 2004.

From 1995 to 2007, he worked at Sarajevo Institute of Economics as researcher- academic associate, and as a Head of the Centre for MicroeconomicAnalyses, performing in the same time the duty of assistant professor – outsourced associate at the School of Economics and Business in Sarajevo. He workedas the researcher – expert associate from 1987 to 1995 at the Institute for the Organization and the Economics in Sarajevo.

Within his professional career, he was time Deputy President ofthe Supervisory Board of Investment, later on, Development Bank of BH Federation. In his long time consulting experience he participated as the author, co-author or manager in preparationof over 120 elaboration papers, projects and study papers from the different area of micro and macro economy (management, finances, banking, strategies, organization, development). Within his academic career, as author or co-author he participated in publication of 13 booksandmonographs. He was awarded for theBest Text Book for university education for his paper „Symptoms and Causes of Companies' Crisis in Bosnia and Herzegovina“at XXIII International Fair of Books and XI Book Biennale, Sarajevo 2011. Also, as the author or co-author, he published around 30 scientific and expert papers in Collections, Journals and other publications, at seminars and symposiums.

Along with hisabroadstudy visits and professional capacities building in the field of economy, within the educationalactivities he also featured as a lecturer at numerous seminars and symposiums from the area of management,finances, business planning, organizationand small business.

As per Decision of Bosnia and Herzegovina Presidency, dated July 13, 2015, he was appointed for member of the CBBH Governing Board. On August 11, 2015, the Governing Board appointed Softić as the Governor of the CBBH at six - years mandate.