OFFICIALS

Vuk Jeremić has held the post of Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Serbia since May 15th, 2007.

Over the course of his term, Foreign Minister Jeremić has actively participated in all regular Sessions of the UN General Assembly, and has addressed the UN Security Council on more than a dozen occasions. He has led the Serbian delegation to the high level segments of the UN Human Rights Council in 2008, 2010 and 2011. In addition, he has actively participated in all UNESCO General Conferences held since he became Foreign Minister. Moreover, he has addressed a number of special UN meetings, including the Fortieth Anniversary Review Conference of the Parties to the Treaty on Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons (New York, 2010), the UN Conference on Least Developed Countries (Istanbul, 2011), and the High-Level Meeting on Nuclear Security (New York, 2011).

Since becoming Foreign Minister, Mr. Jeremić has actively participated in the high-level meetings of the Alliance of Civilizations, the African Union, the Organization of American States, and the Non-Aligned Movement. He also hosted the Additional Official Commemorative Meeting at the Level of Foreign Ministers to Celebrate the Fiftieth Anniversary of NAM, which took place in Belgrade in September 2011.

Within the framework of the OSCE, Foreign Minister Jeremić has actively participated in all Ministerial Council sessions held since 2007, as well as the special sessions held in Corfu (2009) and Almaty (2010). He attended the Eleventh OSCE Summit, which took place in Astana in 2010, and addressed several special sessions of the OSCE Permanent Council in Vienna, most recently in July 2011, in his capacity as concurrent chair of three important regional organizations.

Foreign Minister Jeremić has presided over all of Southeast Europe’s most important regional organizations, including the Central European Initiative (January to December 2011), the Adriatic Ionian Initiative (June 2011 to May 2012), the Southeast Europe Cooperation Process (June 2011 to June 2012), the Migration, Asylum and Refugees Regional Initiative (April 2011 to April 2012), and the Black Sea Economic Cooperation Organization (January to June 2012).
Foreign Minister Jeremić chaired the Committee of Ministers of the Council of Europe from May to November 2007, representing the Committee before the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe during several of its sessions. He has headed the Serbian delegation to all ministerial sessions of the Council’s Committee of Ministers that have taken place since 2008, and has addressed three sessions of its Forum for the Future of Democracy (held in Sweden in 2007, Armenia in 2010, and Cyprus in 2011).

He initiated and hosted two groundbreaking conferences (in 2010 and 2011) on solving the protracted refugee situation in the Western Balkans.

Foreign Minister Jeremić has published op-ed articles in newspapers such as the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, and the International Herald Tribune. In addition, he has addressed universities such as Harvard, Columbia and Johns Hopkins-SAIS. He has given lectures before the Institut d’études politiques (Sciences Po) in Paris, the London School of Economics and the University of Oxford in the UK, in addition to speaking at Berlin’s Humboldt University, Prague’s Charles University, Budapest’s Corvinus, as well as Leiden University in The Netherlands. Moreover, he has delivered keynote remarks to Sabanci University in Istanbul, the Moscow State Institute of International Relations, the China Institute of International Studies, and the Institute for Foreign Affairs of Viet Nam. He has also spoken at numerous civil society events, and participated in panels organized by the Economist magazine, the World Economic Forum, Chatham House, the Bled Strategic Forum, the Aspen Institute and the MEDays Forum in Tangiers, Morocco.

He is a graduate of the University of Cambridge, with a degree in Theoretical Physics. He received a Master in Public Administration degree from John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University.

Mr. Jeremić began his governmental career as Adviser to the Minister of Telecommunications of the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia in the wake of the October 2000 democratic changes. In June 2003, he was appointed Advisor for Foreign Affairs to the Minister of Defense of the State Union of Serbia and Montenegro. From July 2004 to May 2007, he served as Senior Foreign Policy Adviser to H.E. Mr. Boris Tadić, President of the Republic of Serbia.

In February 2004, he was appointed Chairman of the Foreign Affairs Committee of the Democratic Party. Prior to his political engagement, Mr. Jeremic worked for a number of financial institutions in the City of London, including Deutsche Bank and Dresdner Kleinwort Benson, and then for AstraZeneca Pharmaceuticals.

He is currently President of the Serbian Tennis Federation.

Born in Belgrade in 1975, Foreign Minister Jeremić is married. He is fluent in English, in addition to his native Serbian.