Biljana Đorđević

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Biljana Đorđević
Биљана Ђорђевић
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Đorđević in 2019
Member of the National Assembly
Assumed office
1 August 2022
Personal details
Born1984 (age 3940)
Vranje, SR Serbia, SFR Yugoslavia
Political party
  • NDB (until 2023)
  • ZLF (since 2023)
Alma mater
Occupation
  • Politician
  • professor
ProfessionPolitical theorist
Other offices
  • 2020–2023: Member of the Minor Council of NDB
  • 2022–present: Deputy President of the NDB/ZLF parliamentary group

Biljana Đorđević (Serbian Cyrillic : Биљана Ђорђевић; born 1984) is a Serbian politician and a docent at the Faculty of Political Sciences at the University of Belgrade. A member of the Green–Left Front (ZLF), she has served as a member of the National Assembly of Serbia since 1 August 2022.

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Early life

Biljana Đorđević was born in 1984 in Vranje, SR Serbia, SFR Yugoslavia. She completed her primary education in Bujanovac and attended a gymnasium in her home town. [1] Đorđević finished her studies at the Faculty of Political Sciences at the University of Belgrade and completed her masters' studies at the University of Oxford. [1]

Career

Đorđević is a docent at the Faculty of Political Sciences at the University of Belgrade. [2] She is also a member of the Presidency of the Association for Political Science of Serbia and the Serbian Association for Legal and Social Philosophy. [1] She previously worked as an associate researcher at the Edinburgh Law School from 2012 to 2013. [3]

She was elected as a member of the Minor Council of the Do not let Belgrade drown (NDB) movement in 2020. [4] Đorđević was the candidate of the We Must coalition, which NDB is part of, in the 2022 parliamentary election. [5] She was elected to the National Assembly, and currently serves as the deputy president of the NDB parliamentary group since 1 August 2022. [6] NDB was transformed into the Green–Left Front on 14 July 2023. [7]

Đorđević supports decentralisation and wants to "radically turn things around". She also wants to reduce social inequality. [8]

Personal life

Đorđević has resided in Belgrade since finishing her studies at the University of Belgrade. [5]

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