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:

From March 2024 to the present · Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary Ambassador of the Republic of Serbia to the Republic of Argentina; Non-resident to Uruguay, Paraguay, Peru, Bolivia, and Ecuador.

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