Saško Kedev, also Sashko Kedev (born 6 July 1962) is a Macedonian politician and doctor of medical sciences. He is a member of the political party VMRO-DPMNE.

Personal life

Born at Štip, Kedev graduated high school in his hometown. He is a physician specialist cardiologist. From 1991 to 1993 he was a specialist at the National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute; National Institutes of Health, USA, full professor at the Faculty of Medicine at the Ss. Cyril and Methodius University in Skopje, European intervention certified cardiologist, certified intervention cardiologist in the U.S. He was director of the clinic for cardiology from 1999 to 2003. He lives in Skopje. He was elected as a corresponding member of the Macedonian Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2015 in the Department of Medical Sciences.

Mountaineering

As a mountaineer he has climbed Mont Blanc (together with the alpinist Jovan Poposki - Jove and the mountaineer Nadir Murseli), Matterhorn, Weisshorn etc. On 19 May 2009, Kedev climbed Mount Everest, becoming the third Macedonian to scale the highest peak in the world. In the Himalayas mountain range, Saško Kedev has climbed the following 11 mountain summits higher than 8 000 meters:

• Mount Everest (8 848 m);
• K2 (8 611 m);
• Lhotse (8 516 m);
• Makalu (8 463 m);
• Cho Oyu (8 201 m);
• Dhaulagiri ( 8 167 m);
• Manaslu (8 163 m);
• Nanga Parbat (8 125 m);
• Annapurna (8 091 m);
• Broad Peak (8 047 m);
• Gasherbrum II (8 035 m) on 22. July 2024.

Politics

From 2002 to 2006 he was a member of the Assembly of the Republic of Macedonia. In April 2004 he was a presidential candidate but lost in the second round against socialist Branko Crvenkovski.