Biljana Đorđević
Биљана Ђорђевић
Biljana Đorđević at Medija centar in Belgrade in 2019
Đorđević in 2019
Member of the National Assembly
Assumed office
1 August 2022
Personal details
Born1984 (age 39–40)
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.

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]

References

  1. 1 2 3 "Ko je Biljana Đorđević: Kandidat za narodnog poslanika". Info Vranjske (in Serbian). 13 February 2022. Archived from the original on 20 September 2022. Retrieved 16 September 2022.
  2. ↑ "Ljudi". Pokret Ne davimo Beograd (in Serbian). Archived from the original on 5 April 2022. Retrieved 16 September 2022.
  3. ↑ "Biljana Đorđević". Belgrade Security Forum. Archived from the original on 20 September 2022. Retrieved 16 September 2022.
  4. ↑ "Pokret Ne davimo Beograd izabrao rukovodstvo". NOVA portal (in Serbian). 20 October 2020. Archived from the original on 24 August 2022. Retrieved 24 August 2022.
  5. 1 2 Stevanović, N. (16 February 2022). "Biljana Đorđević, Bujanovčanka na listi "Ne davimo Beograd": Bujanovac je moj grad". Bujanovačke novine (in Serbian). Archived from the original on 20 September 2022. Retrieved 16 September 2022.
  6. ↑ "Biljana doc. dr Đorđević". National Assembly of Serbia (in Serbian). Archived from the original on 20 September 2022. Retrieved 16 September 2022.
  7. ↑ "Pokret Ne davimo Beograd danas je zvanično postao stranka Zeleno-levi front". Novinska agencija Beta (in Serbian). 14 July 2023. Retrieved 14 July 2023.
  8. ↑ "Biljana Đorđević za Karakter: Šta sve Moramo". Karakter (in Serbian). 29 March 2022. Archived from the original on 20 September 2022. Retrieved 16 September 2022.
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