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 ...

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. 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

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

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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

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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

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, 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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