Jadranka Joksimović

Jadranka Joksimović
Јадранка Јоксимовић
Minister of European Integration
Incumbent
Assumed office 29 June 2017
Prime Minister	Ana Brnabić
Preceded by	Position established
Minister without portfolio in charge of European integration
In office 27 April 2014 – 29 June 2017
Prime Minister	Aleksandar Vučić
Preceded by	Branko Ružić
Personal details
Born	(1978-01-26) 26 January 1978 Belgrade, Republic of Serbia
Political party	Serbian Progressive Party (2008–present)
Alma mater	University of Belgrade
Occupation	Politician

Jadranka Joksimović (Serbian Cyrillic: Јадранка Јоксимовић, born 26 January 1978) is a Serbian politician who is serving as the Minister of European Integration in the Government of the Republic of Serbia from 29 June 2017. Previously, she served as the minister without portfolio in charge of European integration from 2014 to 2017.

Education and career

Jadranka Joksimović was born on 26th January 1978 in Belgrade. She finished there primary and secondary school.

In 2002 she graduated from the Faculty of Political Sciences, University of Belgrade at the Department of International Relations.

She received "The Promising Generation" scholarship of the Embassy of the Kingdom of Norway in 2001, as well as the scholarship of the Fund for Young Talents of the Government of the Republic of Serbia for the most talented students in Serbia in 2000/01. She began her career as a Demonstrator at the Faculty of Political Sciences for the courses of Diplomacy and Diplomatic History and Economy of Transition.

She became the member of the Serbian Radical Party in 2006 and worked there as a associate of Aleksandar Vučić for international relations. At the same time she was part of the editorial staff of the party's magazine "Velika Srbija" (Greater Serbia). She was also on the MP list for the 2008 parliamentary elections.

She was one of the signatories and founders of the Serbian Progressive Party in 2008. She is a member of the Main Committee and the Presidency of the Serbian Progressive Party. By decision of the president of the party, she was appointed International Secretary of the Serbian Progressive Party.

From 2007 to mid-2009, she worked at the National Assembly of the Republic of Serbia as an expert associate of parliamentary group Napred Srbijo (eng. Go forth, Serbia). From 2009 to 2012, she was the editor of municipal newsletter Zemunske novine (eng. Zemun newspaper).

In May 2012, she was elected Member of Parliament in the National Assembly of the Republic of Serbia from the Serbian Progressive Party list. In the National Assembly, she was president of the Security Services Control Committee.

She was also a member of the European Integration Committee, member of the Joint Committee for Stabilisation and Association, member of the Permanent Delegation to the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe, Head of delegation of the Central European Initiative, and president of the Friendship Group with Turkey.

She was first appointed Minister without portfolio in charge of European integration in the Government of the Republic of Serbia on 27 April 2014. Following the early parliamentary elections, on 11 August 2016, she was reappointed Minister without portfolio in charge of European integration. She was appointed Minister of European Integration in the Government of the Republic of Serbia on 29 June 2017.

External links

• Jadranka Joksimović on Facebook