Peter Bossman | |
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| Mayor of Piran | |
| In office 12 November 2010 – 2 December 2018 | |
| Preceded by | Tomaž Gantar |
| Succeeded by | Đenio Zadković |
| Personal details | |
| Born | 2 November 1955 Accra, Gold Coast (now Ghana) |
| Nationality | Ghanaian Slovenian |
| Political party | Social Democrats |
| Profession | Doctor and politician |
Peter Bossman (born 2 November 1955) is a Ghanaian-born Slovenian physician and politician. He was mayor of Piran, a city and municipality in Slovenian Istria in south-western Slovenia. A member of the centre-left Social Democrats, he defeated the incumbent mayor Tomaž Gantar in the October 2010 mayoral election to become Slovenia's first black mayor. In 2011 he was also appointed to the Committee of the Regions of the European Union.[1]