Born in Belgrade, Serbia on 5 July 1950.

EDUCATION

1980            PhD in Economics (magna cum laude), Dissertation “Economic Effects of Indirect Taxes”, Faculty of Law, University of Belgrade

1976            MA in Law (with honors), Faculty of Law, University of Belgrade

1973           BA in Law (with honors), Faculty of Law, University of Belgrade

PROFFESIONAL DEVELOPMENT

1994-1995   European University Institute, Florence

1985            University of Maryland and University of Virginia, USA, Holder of the Fulbright’s Scholarship

1980            International Bureau of Fiscal Documentation, Amsterdam, Holder of the Government of the Netherlands Scholarship

ACADEMIC CAREER

2007-to the  Honorary President of the Conference of Universities of Serbia

present day

2005-2006    President of the Conference of Universities of Serbia

2004-2006    Rector of the University of Belgrade

2000-2006        Head, Law and Economics Department, Faculty of Law, 

University of Belgrade

1995-1998    Dean of the Faculty of Law, University of Belgrade

1985-1987    Vice Dean of the Faculty of Law, University of Belgrade

1991-to the   Professor, Faculty of Law, University of Belgrade

present day                      

1986-1991     Associate Professor, Faculty of Law, University of   Belgrade

1981-1986    Senior Lecturer, Faculty of Law, University of Belgrade

1973-1981    Assistant Lecturer, Faculty of Law, University of Belgrade

Has been lecturing in the following subjects: Public Finance and Financial Law, Tax Law (undergraduate studies); Budgetary Law and Tax Law of the European Union (graduate and post-graduated studies)

Visiting Professor at the University of Montenegro (1998-present day), University of Maribor, Slovenia (1999-present day), Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, China (2005)

PROFESSIONAL ENGAGMENTS

2008-to the   Ambassador of the Republic of Serbia to the United Kingdom

present day  of Great Britain and Northern Ireland                   

2009-to the   Ambassador of the Republic of Serbia to Ireland

present day

2005-2008    Member of the Privy Council of the President of the Republic

 of Serbia

2004-2006     Consultant to the UNDP

2004-2007    Member of the Board of Directors, Vojvodjanska banka

2003-2004       Chairman of the Board of Directors, Vojvodjanska banka

2001-2003    Deputy Minister of Finance and Economy of the Republic of

 Serbia  

1997, 2003   Consultant to the World Bank

1994-1999     Director of the Tax and Legal Department, Deloitte & Touche,

 Belgrade

1993           Member of the Expert Team for the Programme of the Monetary

                    Reconstruction in FR Yugoslavia

1991            Fiscal Expert for the OECD in Slovakia

1991             Member of the Commission for the Fiscal Reform of the 

                    Government of Montenegro

1990-1991    Head of the Commission for the Fiscal Reform of the

 Government of Serbia

1990-1991    Member of the Commission for the Fiscal Reform of the Federal

                    Executive Council, SFR Yugoslavia

1986-to the   Scientific Adviser to the Economics Institute, Belgrade

present day

MEMBERSHIPS

Since 2006    Serbian Fiscal Association, Chairman

Since 2006   International Fiscal Association, Member

Since 2005   European Association of Tax Law Professors, Member

Since 2000    Serbian Association of Economists, Scientific Society, Member

Since 1987   International Institute of Public Finance, Member

DECORATIONS

-          Officier dans l’Ordre des Palmes Académiques (France)

-          Grande Ufficiale, Ordine della Stella della Solidarietà  Italiana  (Italy)

PUBLICATIONS

Has written or edited 15 books (monographs, text-books, systematic works, commentaries on various statutes) and numerous articles related to Public Finance, Tax Law and Tax Law of the European Union, including:

-          Serbia's Double Taxation Treaties. Legal Framework and Interpretation , (with Svetislav V. Kostić), CEKOS-IN, Belgrade, 2009.

-          Tax Law, The Official Gazette and the Faculty of Law, Belgrade, 2008.

-          Central and East Europe – Taxation and Investment: Serbia (with Gordana Ilić-Popov), IBFD, Amsterdam, 2008.

-          Implementation of the VAT Law (with Stevan Aleksić), CEKOS-IN, Belgrade, 2006.

-          Tax Reform in Serbia 2001-2003, Economics Institute, Belgrade, 2005.

-          Commentary on the Law on Tax Procedure and Tax Administration, CEKOS-IN, Belgrade, 2003.

-          Reform of Taxation System (with Boris Begović, Gordana Ilić-Popov and Boško Mijatović), CLDS, Belgrade, 2003.

-          The Relationship between the Public Finance and the Financial Law. Theoretical – Methodological Foundations, in: Essays in Honour to Professor Božidar Jelčić on the Occasion of His 70^th Birthday, editor Olivera Horvat-Lončarić, Faculty of Law, Zagreb, 2001.

-          Influence of the Tax Policy on the Policy of Profit Distribution and Financing of Investments in Corporations, in: Macroeconomic Policy in the Field of Finances, Essays in Honour of Ksente Bogoev, Member of the Macedonian Academy of Sciences and Arts, on the Occasion of His 80^th Birthday, editor Nikola Uzunov, MANU, Skopje, 2001.

-          The System of Public Revenues in Serbia: Elopement from Market Orientation, “Bulletin G-17”, 3/2000.

-          Fiscal Policy (with Diana Dragutinović), in: Recovery and Transition of the Yugoslav Economy, CIPE, Belgrade, 2000.

-          Tax System, Dossier, Belgrade, 1999.

-          What is Unconstitutional in Tax and Other Fiscal Laws? Paralysis of the Constitutional Judiciary in Yugoslavia, in: Crises and Reconstruction of the Law, editor Zoran Ivošević, CUPS, Belgrade, 1999.

-          The Value Added Tax: A Missing Link in the Tax System of the FR Yugoslavia, in: Law in Transition, Serbia – Slovakia, editor Svetislav Taboroši and Mariá Hencovská, Faculty of Law, Belgrade, 1999.

-          Pay-as-you-go Versus Funded System of Financing Pensions in Central and Eastern Europe (with Gordana Ilić-Popov), in: Ageing, Social Security and Affordability, editors Theodore R. Marmor and Philip R. De Jong, Ashgate, Aldershot, 1998.

-          Financing Social and Cultural Rights in Yugoslavia: Tax Exemptions and Arrears, “Acta Juridica Hungarica”, No. 3-4/1998.

-          Challenges and Opportunities for the Transition in Yugoslavia: Fiscal Policies and Incentives, in: Challenges and Opportunities for the Economic Transition in Yugoslavia, editor Goran Pitić, USAID, Economics Institute and Chesapeake Associates, Belgrade, 1998.

-          Tax Law of the European Union, in: The European Union Law, editors Dobrosav M. Mitrović and Obrad Račić, The Official Gazette, Belgrade, 1996.

-          Taxes and Investment in FR Yugoslavia, in: Taxes and Investment in Central and East European Countries, IBFD, Amsterdam, 1994.

-          Tax Incentives and the Need for Tax Neutrality. The Yugoslavian Experience, in: The Role of Tax Reform in Central and Eastern European Countries, OECD, Paris, 1991.

-          Corporation Profits Tax, Economics Institute, Belgrade, 1991.

-          International Tax Planning, “Finansije”, No. 5-6/1989.

-          Economic Effects of Indirect Taxes, Faculty of Law, Belgrade, 1983.

LANGUAGE SKILLS

Fluent in English, speaks basic Italian, French, German and Slovenian.