Goran Svilanović

Dr. Goran Svilanović took office as the Secretary General of the Regional Cooperation Council on January 1^st, 2013, following his appointment with the South-East European Cooperation Process (SEECP) Foreign Ministers in Belgrade in 2012. A Serbian diplomat and politician, Dr. Svilanović previously served as coordinator of the OSCE Economic and Environmental Activities (2008-2012). In November 2004, he became Chairman of Working Table I (dealing with democratization and human rights) of the Stability Pact for South-Eastern Europe, where he served until the end of 2007. He was member of the Senior Review Group of the Stability Pact, which proposed the transformation of the Stability Pact into the Regional Co-operation Council. From 2000 to 2004, Dr. Svilanović was Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia, renamed Serbia and Montenegro in 2003. Between 2000 and 2007, he was a Member of Parliament. He was President of the “Civic Alliance of Serbia: political party (1999-2004). Dr. Svilanović holds a PhD from the Union University in Belgrade, earned a Master’s and undergraduate law degrees from the University of Belgrade, and has studied at the Institute for Human Rights in Strasbourg, France, the University of Saarland in Germany, and the European University Center for Peace Studies in Staadtschlaining, Austria. Dr. Svilanovic has worked with a number of organizations and committees, including the Centre for Antiwar Action (1995-1999), the International Commission on the Balkans (2004-2006) and the Belgrade Centre for Human Rights (2007-2008). Since 2008, Mr Svilanovic has been Assistant Professor of Law at Union University in Belgrade. Dr. Svilanović speaks Serbian and English. He is married and has two children.