Marko Đurić

Marko Đurić (Serbian Cyrillic: Марко Ђурић; born June 25, 1983 in Belgrade)^[2] is a Serbian politician, foreign policy adviser to the President of the Republic of Serbia^[3] since June 2012,^[4] a member of the Presidency and the Main Board of the Serbian Progressive Party, a member of the Foreign policy and European integration Council of the Serbian Progressive Party, and a member of the SNS since the early beginnings of the Party in 2008.^[2][5]

Early life and education

Đurić enrolled as a student of a 4-year programme of the Faculty of law in 2002, and graduated 8 years later, in 2010. Đurić speaks Serbian and English fluently, has a good level of Hebrew, and basic French.^[2]

Political, academic and professional activity

From 2002 to 2008, he was a member of the Student parliament at his faculty, where he organised and chaired several public discussions and participated in various student competitions (public speech, moot courts).

In 2008 he wrote an analysis of the proposed new Statute of the Autonomous Province of Vojvodina. That year, he was among the founding members of the Serbian Progressive Party (SNS), and in 2009 he became SNS legal team coordinator and assistant to the Party Deputy President Aleksandar Vučić. Since 2010, he is a Member of the SNS Main Board, also acting as a party spokesman. In 2011 Đurić helped the establishment, and started coordination of SNS Foreign policy and European integration team, took very active and noticeable role during the 2012 election campaign, and in late 2012 he became a member of the Presidency of the Serbian Progressive Party.^[5]

Đurić has also hosted and edited a youth political radio talk-show at the nationally broadcast “Radio Belgrade 202” station in 2001 and 2002. He joined Otpor movement in 2000, and became an activist of its press team, taking part in the October 5th happenings of the same year, that led to overthrowing of Slobodan Milošević’s regime.

In 2011, he was employed as a researcher at the Institute for political studies in Belgrade, freezing his status at the Institute after SNS and its candidate Tomislav Nikolić won the general and presidential election in May 2012, and Đurić entered Office of the President.^[2]

In June 2012 he was appointed a Foreign Policy Adviser to the President of the Republic of Serbia, with coordination of top officials’ activities regarding the International reaction to the 2008 Kosovo declaration of independence, and the preparation of a Serbian official platform for Belgrade-Pristina negotiations in 2012, along with daily diplomatic communication and strategic policy planning being some of many of his important duties.

Notable Predecessors

His grandfather on his mother's side, Dr. Najdan Pašić was a professor, social and political theorist, and one of the founders of the University of Belgrade Faculty of Political Sciences and the weekly newspaper “NIN“, while one of the most influential political figures in the modern history of the Balkans Nikola Pašić was his great-granduncle.

References

External links

• www.predsednik.rs Official website of the president of Serbia
• Serbian Progressive Party official website