Žarko Obradović is Serbia

Serbia

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n politician and Minister of Education in the Government of Serbia

Government of Serbia

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He holds a position of Lecturer at the Megatrend University

Megatrend University

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 and dean at the University’s Faculty of Public Administration.

Apart from his native Serbian

Serbian language

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, Obradović speaks English

English language

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 fluently and has a working knowledge of French

French language

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. He is married, and a father of two daughters.

Biography

Obradović graduated from the Faculty of Political Sciences at the University of Belgrade

University of Belgrade

The University of Belgrade is the oldest and largest university of Serbia.Founded in 1808 as the Belgrade Higher School in revolutionary Serbia, by 1838 it merged with the Kragujevac-based departments into a single university...

, where he later also received his MA and PhD. He published two books and ten papers.

From 1998 until 2000 he was Deputy Minister for Local Self-Government and in the interim government, from October 2000 until January 2001, he was Deputy Minister of Higher Education.

He has been MP since 2001. He was president and deputy president of the Socialist Party of Serbia

Socialist Party of Serbia

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 caucus in the Serbian parliament

National Assembly of Serbia

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 and has been Deputy President of the Socialist Party of Serbia from December 2006.

On 7 July 2008, he was appointed Minister of Education in the cabinet of Mirko Cvetković

Mirko Cvetkovic

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