Alija Behmen (25 December 1940 – 1 August 2018) was a Bosnian politician who served as the 36th mayor of Sarajevo from 2009 until 2013, and was a member of the Social Democratic Party of Bosnia and Herzegovina (SDP BiH). Behmen previously served as Prime Minister of the Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina from 2001 to 2003.

He graduated in 1969 from the Faculty of Economics at the University of Sarajevo, where he later presented a doctoral dissertation in the field of modeling transport costs and their impact on the reproduction and development of the economy. In 1974, Behmen defended his master's degree in marketing. From 1970 he worked at the Ins*ute of Economics in Sarajevo and at the Sarajevo State Technical University as responsible for technological and economic functions. He was also Deputy President and Chairman of the Management Board of the ŽTO Sarajevo.

From 1978 to 1980, Behmen chaired the PO Interšped Workers' Organization. He was then appointed *istant Professor at the Faculty of Transport and Communications.

In the 1998 general elections, as a candidate of SDP BiH, he was elected member of the Sarajevo Cantonal *embly and deputy chairman of the Federal House of Peoples.

From March 2001 to the end of 2003, Behmen was appointed as Prime Minister of the Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina en*y.

In the 2006 general election, Behmen was elected member of the Federal House of Representatives. He left the post in January 2009, after being appointed mayor of the City of Sarajevo. He worked as mayor until 2013.

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• Media related to Alija Behmen at Wikimedia Commons