Professional Career:
July 2022 – December 2023 Ambassador, Deputy Assistant Minister for Bilateral Cooperation, MFA
November 2021 - July 2022 Director of the Department for Africa and the Middle East, MFA
April 2017 - November 2021 Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Republic of Serbia to the People's Democratic Republic of Algeria (from October 2019 to November 2021 also the Non-Resident Ambassador of the Republic of Serbia to the Republic of Mali, based in Algiers)
March 2015 - April 2017 Minister-Counselor / Head of the Department for Asia, Australia and the Pacific, MFA
September 2012 - March 2015 First Counselor, later Minister-Counselor at the Department for Asia, Australia and the Pacific, MFA (Acting Head of the Department from March to October 2013 and from November 2014 to March 2015)
August 2006 - August 2012 Counselor for Political Affairs and Press, Embassy of the Republic of Serbia in Beijing, People's Republic of China
June 2005 – August 2006 First Secretary / Coordinator at the Secretariat of the Sector for Bilateral Cooperation, MFA
June 2003 – June 2005 Second Secretary for Political and Economic Affairs, Embassy of Serbia and Montenegro in Nicosia, the Republic of Cyprus
March 2001 – June 2003 Attaché, later Third Secretary for Political and Economic Affairs, Embassy of the FR Yugoslavia in London, United Kingdom
July 1998 – March 2001 Intern, later Attaché, MFA
Before starting his career at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, he worked in the corporate sector.
Education:
- Graduated from the Faculty of Economics of the University of Belgrade in 1997, where he later obtained a master’s degree
- 1998 – 1999 - Diplomatic Academy, MFA, Belgrade
As part of the professional training, participated in several seminars organized by MFA of Sweden (November 2000), MFA of Belgium (February 2006) and MFA of China (2007, 2011).
Co-author (with Živorad Simić) of the book "Cyprus - History of Unification" (2015) and author of books "China`s Economic Development" (2017) and “Globalization 2.0 – Towards the Second Century of the People’s Republic of China” (2023).
Speaks English and French.
Married, father of two.
