Curriculum vitae

VELJKO LAZIC, Ambassador

Date and place of birth: August 3, 1969 in Belgrade

Marital status: Married, one child

Graduated from the Faculty of Law in Belgrade (1994)

Diplomatic Academy, the Federal Ministry of Foreign Affairs (October 1996 - June 1997)

Career:

December 2020 - February 2024

Head of the Department for North and South America, MFA

August 2014 – August 2020

Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary to the Federative Republic of Brazil,  Non-resident to Republic of Ecuador and Plurinational State of Bolivia 

March 2012 – June 2014

Deputy Chief of Mission - Minister Counsellor at the Embassy of the Republic of Serbia in Rome, Italy 

February 2011 – February 2012

First Counsellor – Assistant Secretary General, MFA 

November 2010 – February 2011

Counsellor – Assistant Secretary General, MFA 

August 2006 – October 2010

Counsellor at the Embassy of the Republic of  Serbia to the Holy See, Vatican

March 2005 – August 2006

Counsellor – Assistant Secretary General, MFA

September 2002 – March 2005

Second Secretary / First Secretary – Department for Europe (Division for France, Spain, Portugal and the Benelux countries) MFA

August 1998 – September 2002

Attaché at the Yugoslav Embassy in Lisbon, Portugal

July 1997 – August 1998

Third Secretary – Department for Research and Documentation, Federal Ministry of Foreign Affairs 

August 1996 – June 1997

Trainee – Federal Ministry of Foreign Affairs

March 1995 – August 1996.

Trainee – Municipal Court in Belgrade

September 1994 – February 1995

Trainee – Law Office

Languages:

- English  - Italian  - Portuguese  - Spanish