Biljana Đorđević ( sr-cyrl, Биљана Ђорђевић; born 1984) is a Serbian politician and a docent at the
Faculty of Political Sciences at the
University of Belgrade
The University of Belgrade ( sr, / ) is a public university in Serbia. It is the oldest and largest modern university in Serbia.
Founded in 1808 as the Belgrade Higher School in revolutionary Serbia, by 1838 it merged with the Kragujevac-b ...
. A member of the
Green–Left Front (ZLF), she has served as a member of the
National Assembly of Serbia
The National Assembly ( sr-cyr, Народна скупштина, Narodna skupština, ) is the unicameral legislature of Serbia. The assembly is composed of 250 deputies who are proportionally elected to four-year terms by secret ballot. The as ...
since 1 August 2022.
Early life
Biljana Đorđević was born in 1984 in
Vranje
Vranje ( sr-Cyrl, Врање, ) is a city in Southern Serbia and the administrative center of the Pčinja District. The municipality of Vranje has a population of 83,524 and its urban area has 60,485 inhabitants.
Vranje is the economical, polit ...
,
SR Serbia
, life_span = 1944–1992
, status = Constituent state of Yugoslavia
, p1 = Territory of the Military Commander in Serbia
, flag_p1 = Flag of German Reich (1935–1945).svg
, p2 ...
,
SFR Yugoslavia
The Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia, commonly referred to as SFR Yugoslavia or simply as Yugoslavia, was a country in Central and Southeast Europe. It emerged in 1945, following World War II, and lasted until 1992, with the breakup of Yug ...
. She completed her primary education in
Bujanovac and attended a gymnasium in her home town.
Đorđević finished her studies at the
Faculty of Political Sciences at the
University of Belgrade
The University of Belgrade ( sr, / ) is a public university in Serbia. It is the oldest and largest modern university in Serbia.
Founded in 1808 as the Belgrade Higher School in revolutionary Serbia, by 1838 it merged with the Kragujevac-b ...
and completed her masters' studies at the
University of Oxford
, mottoeng = The Lord is my light
, established =
, endowment = £6.1 billion (including colleges) (2019)
, budget = £2.145 billion (2019–20)
, chancellor ...
.
Career
Đorđević is a
docent
The title of docent is conferred by some European universities to denote a specific academic appointment within a set structure of academic ranks at or below the full professor rank, similar to a British readership, a French " ''maître de conf ...
at the Faculty of Political Sciences at the University of Belgrade. She is also a member of the Presidency of the Association for Political Science of Serbia and the Serbian Association for Legal and Social Philosophy.
She previously worked as an associate researcher at the
Edinburgh Law School
Edinburgh Law School, founded in 1707, is a school within the University of Edinburgh, Scotland, United Kingdom dedicated to research and teaching in law. It is located in the historic Old College, the original site of the University. Two of ...
from 2012 to 2013.
She was elected as a member of the Minor Council of the
Do not let Belgrade drown
Do not let Belgrade drown ( sr-Cyrl, Не давимо Београд, Ne davimo Beograd, NDB) is a green political organisation in Serbia.
A grassroots movement formed in 2014, aimed at criticising and reforming the current political system t ...
(NDB) movement in 2020. Đorđević was the candidate of the
We Must coalition, which NDB is part of, in the
2022 parliamentary election.
She was elected to the
National Assembly
In politics, a national assembly is either a unicameral legislature, the lower house of a bicameral legislature, or both houses of a bicameral legislature together. In the English language it generally means "an assembly composed of the repre ...
, and currently serves as the deputy president of the NDB parliamentary group since 1 August 2022. NDB was transformed into the
Green–Left Front on 14 July 2023.
Đorđević supports
decentralisation
Decentralization or decentralisation is the process by which the activities of an organization, particularly those regarding planning and decision making, are distributed or delegated away from a central, authoritative location or group.
Conce ...
and wants to "radically turn things around". She also wants to reduce social inequality.
Personal life
Đorđević has resided in Belgrade since finishing her studies at the University of Belgrade.
References
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1984 births
Alumni of the University of Oxford
Do not let Belgrade drown politicians
Green–Left Front politicians
Living people
Members of the National Assembly (Serbia)
Serbian academics
Serbian politicians
University of Belgrade alumni