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 (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
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.
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 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 (ELN).
Currently he is serving as the advisor of the
cabinet of
Zdravko Krivokapić 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
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. He has also studied at the
Institute for Human Rights in
Strasbourg
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, France, the
University of Saarland, Germany, and the
European University Center for Peace Studies 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.
He recognizes the
independence of Kosovo
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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