Members of government
Nenad Vujić
Minister of Justice
He was born on 26 October 1966 in Loznica, where he completed primary and secondary school. He graduated from the Faculty of Law, University of Belgrade. He passed the bar exam.
He is a specialist in human and minority rights, the rights of refugees and displaced persons, labour and trade union rights, as well as the protection of human rights under the European Convention and UN standards.
Since 2010, he has been the Director of the Judicial Academy. In this position, he has been responsible for managing, planning and implementing training programmes for judges and public prosecutors. He has lectured on the European Convention on Fundamental Human Rights and the caselaw of the European Court of Human Rights, on juvenile justice, EU law and on the EU arrest warrant and evidence gathering.
Since 2013, he has been a member, and from December 2017 to December 2019, he was the President of the Commission for Judicial Reform.
Since May 2021, he has been the Coordinator of Cluster 1 in the accession negotiations with the European Union.
He has been a member of the working group for the drafting of the law on the Judicial Academy since August 2024.
From September 2005 to December 2009, he was the Director of the Judicial Training Centre in Belgrade (the predecessor of the Judicial Academy).
From January 2004 to September 2005, he worked as a coordinator and lecturer in the human rights training programme for judges and prosecutors at that centre.
From April 2000 to the end of December 2003, he served as legal advisor and Head of the Office of the Norwegian Refugee Council, Deputy Head of the Office and Coordinator of its Mobile Legal Teams (Human Rights Project – Direct Legal Assistance to Refugees and Displaced Persons), at the Council’s offices in Niš and Kraljevo.
He worked as legal advisor at the Humanitarian Law Centre from October 1999 to April 2000, at the Yugoslav Committee of Lawyers for Human Rights in Belgrade in 1997/1998, while from 1994 to December 1997, he worked at the Centre for Democratic Transition.
He has given numerous lectures and published a large number of research papers, essays and reports. He has attended numerous professional seminars, courses and trainings.
He speaks English.
