Irena Vujović (; born 3 April 1983) is a Serbian politician who served as the minister of environmental protection from 2020 to 2025. A member of the

Serbian Progressive Party The Serbian Progressive Party (, SNS) is a major populist, catch-all party, catch-all List of political parties in Serbia, political party in Serbia. It has been the Ruling party, ruling party since 2012. Miloš Vučević, the former prime mi ...

(SNS), she previously served as president of the Savski Venac Municipality from 2016 to 2020.

Early life and education

She was born in 1983 in

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. Her great-grandfather was Nikola Kovačević, a high ranking Montenegrin member of the

League of Communists of Yugoslavia The League of Communists of Yugoslavia, known until 1952 as the Communist Party of Yugoslavia, was the founding and ruling party of SFR Yugoslavia. It was formed in 1919 as the main communist opposition party in the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats ...

and the brother of

Sava Kovačević Sava Kovačević ( sr-cyrl, Сава Ковачевић; 25 January 1905 – 13 June 1943) was a Yugoslav Partisan divisional commander during World War II, and one of the heroes of the communist Partisan movement. Early life Kovačević was ...

, a commander of the

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. She has bachelor's and master's degrees in economics from the Faculty of International Economics at the

Megatrend University Megatrend University () is a private university located in New Belgrade, the city of Belgrade, Serbia. It was founded in 1989 as the Megatrend Business School, which later became Megatrend University. In 2015, the Council of Megatrend University ...

and is currently attending doctoral studies at the same university. From 2005 to 2008, she was the coordinator of cooperation in the Department of International Cooperation at the Megatrend University. She was also a teaching associate in the subjects Modern Russian Economy and Economics of the Post-Soviet Space.

Politics

She joined the

after its founding in 2008. She was a member of the main board, and was elected a member of the Serbian Progressive Party presidency on 28 May 2016 at the party's election assembly. After the

2012 2012 was designated as: *International Year of Cooperatives *International Year of Sustainable Energy for All Events January *January 4 – The Cicada 3301 internet hunt begins. * January 12 – Peaceful protests begin in the R ...

and

2014 Serbian parliamentary election Parliamentary elections were held in Serbia on 16 March 2014, with nineteen electoral lists competing for 250 members of the National Assembly. The election was called early, after tensions in the coalition led by the ruling Serbian Progressive ...

s, she was elected a member of the

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. After the 2014 elections, the Mayor of Belgrade, Siniša Mali, appointed her as the Assistant Mayor in charge of social activities. In May 2014, she resigned from the National Assembly, because the Agency for the Fight against Corruption announced that she could not perform the function of the Assistant Mayor of Belgrade at the same time. She has been the head of the Gender Equality Council since 2015. She is the Deputy President of the Council for the Rights of Children and is the political representative of Eurocities. After the local elections in 2016, she was elected president of the municipality of Savski Venac and left the position of Assistant Mayor of Belgrade. In the 2018 Belgrade City Assembly elections, she was on the list of candidates of the Serbian Progressive Party. She was mentioned as the favorite of the Progressives for the future mayor of Belgrade, next to Goran Vesić.

References

External links

Irena Vujović
official Facebook page {{DEFAULTSORT:Vujovic, Irena 1983 births 21st-century Serbian women politicians Living people Megatrend University alumni Politicians from Belgrade Serbian people of Montenegrin descent Serbian Progressive Party politicians