Džordže Arsov

Džordže Arsov ( _mk. Џорџе Арсов) is the present Mayor of the Municipality of Kisela Voda. He was born in 1946 in Strumica, in the Republic of Macedonia. He finished primary and secondary education in his home town and completed his graduate studies in Skopje. In 1970, he graduated with Honors from the Faculty of Mechanical Engineering, St.Cyril and Methodius University ( _mk. Универзитет „Св. Кирил и Методиј“- Скопје) in Skopje and immediately started to work as a professor at the high school "ASUC" in Skopje. After four years at ASUC and as a Deputy Director of the school, he left and started to work in the newly established and reputable trading and marketing department of the "Metalski Zavod Tito - MZT". Under his management, over a very short timeframe, the department became a leader in its sector, and later became its own independent organization under the name "MZT Commerce", employing approximately 140 people and responsible for over 90% of the revenues of the overall MZT. This trading and marketing organization became an initiator for association of all commercial services of "Metalski Zavot Tito", in the process opening many offices in Former Yugoslavia as well as in Moscow, Sofia, Frankfurt, Berlin, New York, and other 12 offices around the world. MZT Commerce, under Mr. Arsov's leadership also became an exclusive representative of many firms from Former Yugoslavia for the Western European, U.S. and Middle Eastern markets. Mr. Arsov was the President and Managing Director of the MZT Commerce until 1991.

In 1991, Mr. Arsov started his own trading business in oil and oil derivatives as well as secondary raw and precious materials. By 1998 his business interests enlarged, and he established his own financial consulting and investment advisory firm that specialized in representing domestic companies in search for foreign investors as well as the reactivation of the previously closed factories that were in the process of privatization in the Republic of Macedonia.

The Mayor Džordže Arsov has lived in the Municipality of Kisela Voda for 40 years. He has been married to Margita Arsova for more that 30 years and is a father of two children.

Mr. Džordže Arsov became the Mayor of the Municipality of Kisela Voda after winning the local elections in March 2005, as a member of the political party of VMRO–DPMNE.

At present the Mayor Džordže Arsov is a President of the Commission for Financing of Municipalities in the Republic of Macedonia or "ZELS". As a member of ZELS, he is also a member of the Commission for Financing of Municipalities at the Government of the Republic of Macedonia.