Prof. Tanja Miščević, PhD
Minister of European Integration
Biography
Born in 1966 in Zemun, where she completed her primary and secondary school education.
Miscevic is a full professor at the Faculty of Political Sciences of the University of Belgrade at the Department of International and European Studies. She graduated from the Department of International Relations at the Faculty of Political Sciences in Belgrade in 1989, received her master's degree in 1997, and obtained her PhD in political science in 2002 at the same Faculty.
She taught as a visiting professor at universities in the region, as well as at the Center for European Integration Studies of the University of Bonn, Faculty of Political Sciences of the University of Rome III, Faculty of Political Sciences of the University of Zagreb and the Faculty of Political Sciences of the University of Ljubljana.
She taught as a guest professor at the Military Academy of the Serbian Armed Forces, at the Advanced Security and Defence Studies of the Ministry of Defence and at the Police Academy and led the International Organizations module at the Diplomatic Academy of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Serbia.
She is the author of two books and a large number of scientific monographs and articles in the field of theory and practice of functioning of international governmental organisations, EU enlargement policy, Stabilization and Association Process, as well as relations between Serbia and the European Union.
In the period from 2005 to 2008, she was the Director of the Serbian government’s Office for European Integration and a member of Serbia’s negotiating team for the conclusion of the Stabilization and Association Agreement with the EU. During 2007, she led the negotiation team of the Republic of Serbia in negotiations on the conclusion of the Visa Facilitation Agreement and the Readmission Agreement between the Republic of Serbia and the European Union.
She was the Vice President of the Anti-Corruption Agency from 2009 to 2011. In the period from 2010 to 2012, she was the State Secretary of the Ministry of Defence of the Government of the Republic of Serbia.
The Serbian government appointed Miscevic as the Head of the Team for Negotiations on the Membership of the Republic of Serbia with the European Union in August 2013 and she held this position until August 2019. From November 2019, she was the Deputy Secretary General of the Regional Cooperation Council.
She is the recipient of the “Contribution of the Year to Europe” award, the Rainbow Award and the Knight of the Order of Merit of the French Republic.
She speaks English and Russian.
Assistant Ministers
Miroslav Gačević, Assistant Minister, Department for Political and Economic Criteria in the Process of Accession to the European Union
Biography
Born in Belgrade, in 1982. He graduated from the Faculty of Law, University of Belgrade, at the Department of International Law, in 2005. The same year, he started working as an intern at the First Municipal Court in Belgrade. In 2006, he started working at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Serbia, where he finished the Diplomatic Academy (2007). He worked at the Directorate for Consular Affairs and the Minister’s Cabinet until 2009. From 2009 to 2013, he was appointed vice-consul at the Consulate General of the Republic of Serbia in New York. Upon his return from New York, he was appointed Assistant Secretary-General to the Minister of Foreign Affairs, after which he worked at the Division for Neighbouring Countries and South East Europe in the Department for Bilateral Cooperation of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. From 2014 to 2019 he was in office at the Mission of the Republic of Serbia to the EU in Brussels. Upon his return from Brussels, he performed the duty of an Adviser to the Minister of European Integration. He is married and has two children.
Branko Budimir, Assistant Minister, Department for planning, programming, monitoring and reporting on EU funds and development assistance
Biography
Born in 1976 in Belgrade. Graduated from the Faculty of Political Sciences in Belgrade, Department of International Relations in 2005, with a thesis on “The Stabilisation and EU Association Process”.
In 2005, he started working at the European Integration Office of the Government of the Republic of Serbia on tasks related to strengthening institutional capacities in the process of European integration, after which he became the Head of Section for Planning International Development Assistance and Coordination of Programming in the Field of Economic and Social Cohesion. In 2008, he did an internship with the Veneto Region Brussels Office. He has served as Assistant Director from October 2014 to June 2017, when the Ministry of European Integration was established. He was appointed Assistant Minister of European Integration in August 2017.
Branko Budimir is Vice-Chairman of the Negotiating Group for Chapter 22 Regional Policy and Coordination of Structural Instruments.
He has published a number of articles, texts and handbooks on the process of European integration and the management of EU funds.
He is married and has two children.
Contact:
branko.budimir@mei.gov.rs
381 11 3061 103
Secretary
Miroslava Đurović, Assistant Secretary
Biography
Born on 21 April 1960 in Cetinje, Montenegro, Miroslava Đurovic graduated from the University of Podgorica, School of Law in 1982. She passed the bar examination in 1986 in Belgrade. In 1999 she completed the Specialist Studies of European Law at the University of Belgrade, School of Law in cooperation with the European University Centre in Nancy, France.
After graduation, Miroslava worked as a Permanent Collaborator on the political system desk at Radio Podgorica for two and a half years. She completed an internship at the Municipal Court in Podgorica, and then worked as a Judge at the Municipal Court of Minor Offences in Podgorica for eight years. After moving to Belgrade, she worked at the Federal Administrative Inspectorate for six years as a Federal Inspector/Senior Advisor, and from 2002 to 2004 she worked as the Secretary of the Ministry of Culture of the Republic of Serbia. At the end of 2004 through the beginning of 2005, she participated in the creation of the pilot project “Translation, legal and language revision of the EU acquis" at the Serbia and Montenegro EU Integration Office.
Miroslava started working at the Serbian European Integration Office of the Government of the Republic of Serbia on 7 March 2005, first as Head of the Department for Human Resources and Financial Affairs, and then on 26 March 2009 as Assistant Director of the Serbian European Integration Office, Department for Legal and Financial Matters.
She was appointed as acting Secretary of the Ministry of European Integration on 12 October 2017.
Contact:
miroslava.djurovic@mei.gov.rs
381 11 3061 102
Organisational structure of the Ministry of European Integration Office can be downloaded here.
