Goran Svilanović

Goran Svilanović is Co-ordinator of OSCE Economic and Environmental Activities since 1st December 2008. He is heading the Second Dimension of OSCE, which is dealing with the security aspects of economic cooperation, good governance, corruption, money laundering, migration, rule of law as well as environment and security and energy security in the OSCE area (56 OSCE participating states and 12 countries, partners for cooperation). Since 2011 he’s been presiding the Management board of Environment and Security Initiative (ENVSEC), which is bringing together OSCE, UNEP, UNDP, UNECE, Regional Environmental Centre Budapest and NATO (as an associated partner). Involved in politics since 1993, Mr. Svilanović became president (1999) of the Civic Alliance of Serbia political party. From 2000 to 2004, he was Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia, which was renamed to Serbia and Montenegro in 2003. Between 2000 and 2007 Mr. Svilanović was a Member of Parliament.  In November 2004, he was selected as Chairman of Working Table I (democratization and human rights) of the Stability Pact for South Eastern Europe, where he served until the end of 2007. In June 2012, Mr. Svilanovic was appointed Secretary General of the Regional Cooperation Council for South East Europe, by the heads of states and governments of the South East Cooperation Process. He is taking over this position in January 2013.