Serbia's Foreign Minister Youngest Govt Member

Serbia's new foreign minister Vuk Jeremic was born in 1975, which makes him the younger member of the Serbian government.

The new minister of foreign affairs Vuk Jeremic, born in Belgrade in 1975, is the youngest member of the new Serbian government. Until now, he served as an advisor to Serbia president Boris Tadic, with whom he has collaborated for years. He is also a member of the president’s Democratic Party.

After getting a degree in physics at Cambridge University in Great Britain, he worked in several financial institutions in London.

He returned to Serbia after the democratic changes, which is to say, after Slobodan Milosevic’s regime was brought down in October 2000. He first worked as an advisor to the federal minister for telecommunications, an office that was then held by the current president of Serbia, Boris Tadic.  

After getting a Master’s degree in public administration at Harvard University, he worked in the Defense Ministry of the State Union of Serbia and Montenegro and, later, he was an advisor to the minister of Euro-Atlantic integrations.

In February 2004, he was elected president of the party's foreign affairs committee and, between July 2004 and assuming the office of the minister of foreign affairs, he was an advisor to president Boris Tadic. 

The new minister is fluent in the English and German language.