THIS IS THE NEW MINISTER OF JUSTICE: She comes from BIA, and this is her biography

Popovic comes to the post of Minister of Justice from the position of chief of staff and adviser to the director of the Security Information Agency, Bratislav Gasic.

The new minister graduated from Belgrade Law School, studied abroad, worked in law and, at age 26, was judge of the First Municipal Court of Belgrade, the youngest elected in our country.

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During her service at the BIA, she worked in the Directorate of International Cooperation, the Directorate of Human Resources, Systemic Legal, Property and Housing, and later was the office head of the director of the Security Information Agency (BIA).

Maja Popović received her primary education in Belgrade and finished secondary school in Spain as a student of the generation, at the English school “Baleares international school”, where classes were taught in Spanish and English.

He enrolled in Belgrade Law School in 1989 and finished it on time. That year, she was the youngest graduate student at the Belgrade Law School. After passing a law degree, he perfected his knowledge at the Novi Sad Law School with an average grade of 9.80, where he acquired the professional title of Master in Law.

He gained work experience at the Vesna Kušić Law Office, after which he worked as a trainee judge and judicial associate at the Belgrade District Court. At the age of 26, she was elected a magistrate of the First Municipal Court of Belgrade as the youngest judge ever elected in our country. She acted as an investigating judge and as chair of the panel in the civil department.

Since January 2000 for the next 12 years she worked as a lawyer in her own office, where she represented legal and natural persons in all matters before ordinary and commercial courts, in criminal, commercial, civil and non-litigious cases. Represented defendants in high-tech crime cases, as well as in cases before the Belgrade High Court Special Department for Organized Crime.

From 2012 to 2014, she worked at the City Institute for Emergency Medical Aid as deputy director of non-medical affairs. Then he is an employee of the Security Information Agency (BIA).

During her service at the Agency, she was assigned to the Directorate for International Cooperation. Subsequently, she worked in the Human Resources, Systemic Legal, Property and Housing Affairs Directorate as Head of the Department of Systemic Legal Relations, Regulations, Property and Housing Law.

He then became the head of the office of the director of the Security Information Agency. He continues his career at the BIA as special advisor to the director of the Security Information Agency.

Maja Popović is fluent in English, Spanish, Italian and French. She is married and the mother of two minor children.