Biljana Đorđević ( sr-cyrl, Биљана Ђорђевић; born 1984) is a Serbian politician and a docent at the Faculty of Political Sciences at the

University of Belgrade The University of Belgrade () is a public university, public research university in Belgrade, Serbia. It is the oldest and largest modern university in Serbia. Founded in 1808 as the Belgrade Higher School in revolutionary Serbia, by 1838 it me ...

. A member of the

Green–Left Front Green–Left Front (, abbr. ZLF) is a green political party in Serbia. It is the successor of Do not let Belgrade drown association and four local citizens' groups. Radomir Lazović and Biljana Đorđević serve as the co-presidents of ZLF. F ...

(ZLF), she has served as a member of the

National Assembly of Serbia The National Assembly ( sr-Cyrl-Latn, Народна скупштина, Narodna skupština, ), fully the National Assembly of the Republic of Serbia (), is the unicameral legislature of Serbia. The assembly is composed of 250 deputies who are ...

since 1 August 2022.

Early life

Biljana Đorđević was born in 1984 in

Vranje Vranje ( sr-Cyrl, Врање, ) is a city in Southern Serbia and the administrative center of the Pčinja District. According to the 2022 census, the city itself has a population of 55,214 while the city administrative area has 74,381 inhabitan ...

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. She completed her primary education in

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and attended a gymnasium in her home town. Đorđević finished her studies at the Faculty of Political Sciences at the

and completed her masters' studies at the

University of Oxford The University of Oxford is a collegiate university, collegiate research university in Oxford, England. There is evidence of teaching as early as 1096, making it the oldest university in the English-speaking world and the List of oldest un ...

Career

Đorđević is a

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at the Faculty of Political Sciences at the University of Belgrade. 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. She previously worked as an associate researcher at the

Edinburgh Law School Edinburgh Law School, founded in 1707, is a school within the University of Edinburgh, Scotland, United Kingdom dedicated to research and teaching in law. It is located in the historic Old College, the original site of the University. Two of t ...

from 2012 to 2013. She was elected as a member of the Minor Council of the

Do not let Belgrade drown Don't Let Belgrade Drown (, NDB/NDMBGD), previously stylised as Don't Let Belgrade D(r)own ( sr-Cyrl-Latn, Не да(ви)мо Београд, Ne da(vi)mo Beograd), was a green political organisation in Serbia. A grassroots movement formed in ...

(NDB) movement in 2020. Đorđević was the candidate of the

We Must We Must ( sr-Cyrl, Морамо, Moramo; stylised as MORAMO,) was an opposition electoral alliance that participated in the 2022 Serbian general elections. Initially formed in November 2021, when Together for Serbia (ZZS), Do not let Belgrade ...

coalition, which NDB is part of, in the 2022 parliamentary election. She was elected to the

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, and currently serves as the deputy president of the NDB parliamentary group since 1 August 2022. NDB was transformed into the

on 14 July 2023. Đorđević supports

decentralisation Decentralization or decentralisation is the process by which the activities of an organization, particularly those related to planning and decision-making, are distributed or delegated away from a central, authoritative location or group and gi ...

and wants to "radically turn things around". She also wants to reduce social inequality.

Personal life

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

References

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