Acting Assistant Minister for Security Policy Miloš Jončić, PhD

Born in 1983 in Jagodina. He completed elementary and secondary school in Ćuprija. He graduated from the Faculty of Law, University of Belgrade, in 2007, specializing in International Law, and earned his PhD from the same Faculty in 2017. He completed the Diplomatic Academy of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Serbia in 2021.

He performed his mandatory military service in 2007 as part of the 121st class of the Reserve Officers’ School and was commissioned the same year as a reserve Second Lieutenant of the Serbian Armed Forces.

In 2008, he was appointed Teaching Assistant for the subjects Public International Law and Human Rights at the Faculty of Public Administration and Administration, Megatrend University. From 2011, he was employed at the Institute of International Politics and Economics, where he obtained all research titles and, in 2018, was elected Research Fellow. He has participated in numerous international and national scientific conferences and is the author and co-author of a number of academic papers in the fields of international public law, international humanitarian law, and international relations, including “The International Legal Status of Civilians in Armed Conflicts”, “Military Non-Alignment – Concept, Development, Perspectives”, “Significant Violations of the Rules of the International Law of Armed Conflict in the Aggression on the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia 1999”, and “The International Legal Regulation of Autonomous and Automated Combat Systems in Contemporary Armed Conflicts.”
He has completed several specialized courses in Serbia and abroad in the areas of peacekeeping missions, disarmament, and international humanitarian law.

He has been employed with the Ministry of Foreign Affairs since January 2022. As Minister-Counsellor, he served as Coordinator for the Implementation of International Restrictive Measures within the Department for Arms Control, Security Policy Sector. From April 2024, he held the position of Head of the Department for Arms Control in the same sector.

Since 2023, he has served as Chairman of the National Coordination Body for the Prevention of the Proliferation of Weapons of Mass Destruction and for the Implementation of the Strategy to Combat the Proliferation of Weapons of Mass Destruction. He also acts as the national point of contact for the Republic of Serbia’s cooperation with several international organizations and initiatives, including the Global Initiative to Combat Nuclear Terrorism (since 2023) and the Nuclear Suppliers Group (since 2022).

In 2023, he was elected Associate Professor at the Faculty of Business Studies and Law, Union University “Nikola Tesla.”

Since 2023, he has been a regular lecturer in the course Agreement on Sub-Regional Arms Control (Dayton Article IV) – Orientation Course, organized by the Centre for Security Cooperation – RACVIAC.

In October 2025, he was appointed Acting Assistant Minister of Foreign Affairs for Security Policy.

He speaks English, has working knowledge of German, and has begun studying Russian.