Goran Svilanović ( sr-Cyrl, Горан Свилановић; born 22 October 1963) is a
Serbian politician and diplomat who was the Secretary General of the Regional Cooperation Council (RCC), from 1 January 2013 until 31 December 2018, following the appointment by the
South-East European Cooperation Process (SEECP) Foreign Ministers in
Belgrade
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,
Serbia
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on 14 June 2012.
Career
Svilanović has been active in politics since 1993. He became president of the
Civic Alliance of Serbia
The Civic Alliance of Serbia (; abbr. ГСС or GSS) was a liberal political party in Serbia.
History
Known widely by its three-letter acronym in Serbian, GSS was founded and registered in 1992.
In the 1992 election, the party was represented ...
(Građanski Savez Srbije) in 1999 and held this position until 2004,
when he resigned. From 2000 to 2004, he was Minister of Foreign Affairs of the
Federal Republic of Yugoslavia
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, which was renamed Serbia and Montenegro in 2003.
After years of negotiations, disagreements and delays he signed the
on behalf of Federal Republic of Yugoslavia.
He served from November 2004 until the end of 2007 as the chairman of Working Table I (democratization and human rights) of the
Stability Pact for South Eastern Europe The Stability Pact for Southeastern Europe was an institution aimed at strengthening peace, democracy, human rights and economy in the countries of South Eastern Europe from 1999 to 2008. It was replaced by the Regional Cooperation Council (RCC) i ...
.
He was also a member of the Senior Review Group of the Stability Pact, which proposed the transformation of the Stability Pact into the Regional Co-operation Council.
He served as coordinator of th
OSCE Economic and Environmental Activities(2008–2012).
Since 2008, Svilanović has been assistant professor of law at
Union University
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in Belgrade.
He has also been engaged and worked with a number of organizations and committees, such as the Centre for Antiwar Action (1995–1999), the International Commission on the Balkans (2004–2006) and the Belgrade Centre for Human Rights (2007–2008).
He is a Senior Network Member at the
European Leadership Network
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Histo ...
(ELN).
Currently he is serving as the advisor of the
cabinet
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of
Zdravko Krivokapić
Zdravko Krivokapić ( cyrl, Здравко Кривокапић; born 2 September 1958) is a Montenegrin professor and politician who served as Prime Minister of Montenegro from 2020 to 2022.
In addition to his professorship at the Universities ...
for economic reforms and
European integration
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.
Education
Svilanović holds a PhD from the Union University in Belgrade, Masters and undergraduate law degrees from the
University of Belgrade Faculty of Law
The Faculty of Law of the University in Belgrade ( sr, Правни факултет Универзитета у Београду/''Pravni fakultet Univerziteta u Beogradu''), also known as the Belgrade Law School, is one of the first-tier educatio ...
. He has also studied at the
Institute for Human Rights in
Strasbourg
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, France, the
University of Saarland
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, Germany, and the
European University Center for Peace Studies
The European University Center for Peace Studies offered postgraduate political studies from 1990 to 2013 in Stadtschlaining, Austria.
The institution was founded in 1988 by Gerald Mader in his capacity as president of the ASPR, with the suppor ...
in
Staadtschlaining, Austria.
Personal life
The Svilanović family moved from Gnjilane to Belgrade when Goran was seven. His father Tihomir held a doctoral degree in agricultural science and his mother Stavrula was an accountant. Svilanović is married and has two children. He speaks
Serbian and
English
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.
References
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1963 births
Living people
People from Gjilan
Kosovo Serbs
Serbian democracy activists
20th-century Serbian lawyers
University of Belgrade Faculty of Law alumni
Civic Alliance of Serbia politicians
21st-century Serbian lawyers