Ivica Dačić

First Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Serbia Ivica Dacic was born on 1 January 1966 in Prizren. After graduating from the Faculty of Political Science in Belgrade, he became actively involved in politics.

Dacic has been a Member of the Socialist Party of Serbia (SPS) since its foundation in 1991. Since 2006, he has served as the President of the Party, which has been reformed under his leadership into a modern party of centre left, with a clear pro-European orientation. He was awarded the title of the Best European (Najevropljanin) in 2009 by the European Movement in Serbia for his contributions to Serbia’s European path.

Dacic was a Member of several Parliaments at republican and federal levels - he was first elected in 1992 to the Citizens’ Chamber of the Federal Assembly of the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia, where he later became the SPS chief whip. He was elected in 2004 as a Member of the National Assembly of the Republic of Serbia, where he also headed the MP Group of the coalition rallied around the SPS.  He was a Member of the parliamentary delegation of the National Assembly of the Republic of Serbia to the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe.

In addition to performing parliamentary duties, Dacic held a number of governmental positions. He was an acting Minister of Information in the so-called transitional government of the Republic of Serbia from October 2000 to January 2001. From July 2008 to July 2012, he served as the First Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Interior; from July 2012 to April 2014, as Prime Minister and Minister of Interior.

From 27 April 2014 and onwards, Dacic was the First Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs.

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