Members of government
Marko Đurić
Minister of Foreign Affairs
Born on 25 June 1983 in Belgrade. Holds a Bachelor of Laws degree.
From May 2024 to April 2025, he served as Minister of Foreign Affairs.
From 2020 to 2024, he was the Ambassador of Serbia to the United States of America, where he strengthened the Serbian diplomatic presence and the infrastructure conditions of the diplomatic mission, systematically organised the Serbian diaspora, initiated the establishment of the American-Serbian Business Council and significantly increased the number of members of the Serbian Caucus in the US Congress.
As an advisor to the President of Serbia from 2012 to 2014, he led the Presidency’s foreign policy team and implemented political, diplomatic and protocol preparations for the President’s meetings with 49 heads of state and government.
He participated in the implementation and creation of Serbia’s foreign policy agenda and in representing Serbia at several sessions of the United Nations and the African Union, as well as in coordinating the Serbian chairmanship of the South-East European Cooperation Process.
He served as head of Serbia’s negotiating team for Chapter 35 in the process of accession negotiations between Serbia and the EU, as well as a delegate at dozens of sessions of the UN Security Council and the UN General Assembly.
He served as Director of the Office for Kosovo and Metohija from 2014 to 2020. He led the creation and implementation of the state policy of the Republic of Serbia in the most complex political and security conditions in the territory of the Autonomous Province of Kosovo and Metohija.
As head of Serbia’s negotiating team in the dialogue with the provisional institutions of self-government in Priština from 2012 to 2020, he led Serbian delegations in a total of 221 rounds of Brussels negotiations.
He chaired the Committee for the Implementation of the First Agreement on the Normalisation of Relations between Belgrade and Priština, in which he created and defined the term and concept of the Community of Serb Municipalities.
He served as head of the Working Group of the Government of Serbia for Internal Dialogue on Resolving the Issue of Kosovo and Metohija, within which he chaired more than 40 roundtables on this topic. In September 2020, he was a member of the Serbian state delegation at the Belgrade-Priština negotiations in Washington.
He conceived and co-designed Natalie’s Ramonda. the emblem that today marks Armistice Day in the First World War in Serbia.
He is one of the founders of the Serbian Progressive Party and deputy chair of the party’s Main Board.
He is the holder of the Order of Njegoš of the 3rd degree awarded by Republika Srpska, the Order of Nikola Tesla received from the Tesla Scientific Foundation and the Order of King Milutin, awarded by the Serbian Orthodox Church.
He is the recipient of the award for the best young politician of the region for 2016, presented by the European Movement in Bosnia and Herzegovina.
Fluent in English and Hebrew, has an intermediate knowledge of French and Russian.
Married with three daughters.
