Goran Svilanovic Chair of Working Table I

CURRICULUM VITAE

Nationality:   Serbo-Montenegrian

•  Born in 1963 in Gjilane, Kosovo

•  Married, two children

•  Fluent in English and German

•  Graduated with an LL.B and LL.M at the Faculty of Law in Belgrade.

•  He then went on to study at the Institute for Human Rights in Strasbourg in 1989. In1990 he received a Fellowship from the Sasakawa Foundation.

•  He then continued his studies at the Faculty of Law in Saarbrücken and at the European Peace University in Austria (1994).

•  Between 1989 and 1998 he was employed as a Teaching Assistant at the Faculty of Law in Belgrade.

• In 1998 he was dismissed, along with a group of Professors and Teaching Assistants, for his opposition to the new University law.

•  He has published many articles and books on civil procedure and civil law as well as on the legal status of refugees and issues relating to citizenship.

•  Goran Svilanovic also collaborated with the Yugoslavian Forum for Human Rights in 1989 and with the Centre for Anti-war Action (1993-1997), where he directed the SOS telephone line for the victims of ethnic, religious, political and trade union discrimination. He was also President of the Council for Human Rights of the Centre for anti-war action in Belgrade (1996-1998).

•  He was equally involved with the Belgrade Centre for Human Rights, the Centre for the Advancement of Law Studies and a number of other non-governmental organisations.

•  Moreover, he was the spokesperson of the Civic Alliance in 1997 and Vice-President in 1998. He then became President of the Civic Alliance in 1999.

•  From November 2000 he was Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia and then Minister of Foreign Affairs of Serbia and Montenegro.