Aleksandra Damjanović Sofronijević will take over the Ministry of Construction, replacing Goran Vesić who resigned following the tragedy in Novi Sad. Jagoda Lazarević will replace Tomislav Momirović as Minister of Internal and External Trade. Both are moving up to ministerial positions from lower positions within their respective ministries, bringing with them extensive experience in the civil service.
Aleksandra Damjanović Sofronijević was born in 1961 in Obrenovac. She graduated from the Faculty of Law in Belgrade and, since 2004, has worked in ministries that have changed names but have been involved in construction and infrastructure, N1 reports.
She began her career in the municipality of Savski venac, where from 1987 to 2004 she held positions as an advisor, assistant head, and head of property law, construction, and communal housing affairs.
From 2004 to 2012, she was an assistant minister in the Ministry of Capital Investments, the Ministry of Infrastructure, and the Ministry of Environmental Protection, Mining, Spatial Planning, and Urbanism.
From 2012 to 2014, she was an assistant minister of construction and urbanism, responsible for the sector dealing with the issuance of building and usage permits, energy efficiency in buildings, construction land, the state building and communal inspection, and administrative and legal supervision in the field of state surveying and cadastre.
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Her future colleague in the Serbian Government comes from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, where she holds the position of ambassador, specifically acting as the Assistant Minister for Economic Diplomacy.
Born in 1969 in Belgrade, she graduated from the Eighth Belgrade Gymnasium. She studied economics and finance at Webster University in Geneva and Vienna, and had her diploma nostrified at the Faculty of Economics in Belgrade.
She transitioned from the private sector to the public service in 2008, working in the Sector for Bilateral Economic Cooperation of the Ministry of Economy and Regional Development. In 2012, she moved to the Ministry of Foreign Trade and Telecommunications, where she was employed in bilateral economic cooperation with Germany, Austria, Switzerland, France, the USA, Canada, and Great Britain.
From June 2013 to April 2014, she was a special advisor for economic relations with foreign countries to the Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Trade and Telecommunications, and from April 2014 to October 2020, she was a special advisor for economic relations with foreign countries to the Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Trade, Tourism, and Telecommunications.
From October to November 2020, she worked as the head of the Department for Europe and Overseas Developed Countries in the Sector for Bilateral Economic Cooperation of the Ministry of Trade, Tourism, and Telecommunications.
In December 2020, she was appointed acting Assistant Minister of Trade, Tourism, and Telecommunications for Bilateral Economic Cooperation.
Since November 2021, she has been employed in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, in the Sector for Economic Diplomacy, and in 2022, by the decision of the Government of the Republic of Serbia, she was appointed acting Assistant Minister of Foreign Affairs for Economic Diplomacy.
From September 2018 to February 2021, she was the Commissioner-General of the Republic of Serbia at the World Expo 2020 Dubai.
She led negotiations on the conclusion of free trade agreements between Serbia and Turkey, the Eurasian Economic Union (2019) and Great Britain (2020/21), and was co-chair of the Serbia-Turkey Joint Expert Committee for Economic Cooperation with Austria, according to her official biography.
Today is the deadline by which Serbian Prime Minister Miloš Vučević must submit to the Assembly the names of the new ministers who will replace the two ministers who previously resigned following the collapse of the canopy at the Novi Sad Railway Station.
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