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Mirko Stefanovic was born on April 18, 1952 in Novi Sad. He graduated in 1974 with a Law Degree from the University of Novi Sad.

Mirko Stefanovic worked as an Attorney at Law in Novi Sad for two years in Novi Sad before joining the Matica Srpska Gallery in Novi Sad as a Secretary General in 1976. In 1979 he joined the Executive Council of the Autonomous Province of Vojvodina as an Adviser and Assistant Secretary General of the Council, and thereafter Undersecretary in the Council and Advisor to the President of the Executive Council.

In 1996 he joined the Federal Secretariat for Foreign Affairs in Belgrade. Immediately he became the Consul at the Embassy of the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia in Tel Aviv, Israel, thereafter after his mandate returning to Belgrade for a year in the Directorate for Middle East and Africa. In 1992 Mr. Stefanovic was the Charge d’Affaires in the Embassy of the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia until 1997 when he was appointed Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of FR Yugoslavia to Israel.

After his mandate as an Ambassador in Israel he returned to Yugoslavia and joined the business industry in order to aid the democratic changes in the country. In 2007 he returned to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Serbia as the Secretary General.

In 2009 Mr. Stefanovic was appointed State Secretary of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

Mr. Stefanovic is fluent in English and German, is married and has two children.