H.E. President Vuk Jeremić

President of the 67th Session of the United Nations General Assembly

Vuk Jeremić is the President of the Center for International Relations and Sustainable Development (CIRSD), a global public policy think tank, and Editor-in-Chief of the quarterly magazine Horizons: Journal of International Relations and Sustainable Development. He is a Professor of Practice at the Sciences Po Paris School of International Affairs. Since 2017, President Jeremić has been a Senior Advisor to Partners Group, a leading global private equity firm based in Switzerland, with USD 147 billion in assets under management.

In 2016, President Jeremić participated in the official election for the UN Secretary-General. After six rounds of voting in the UN Security Council, he finished in second place, behind Mr. Antonio Guterres.

In June 2012, President Jeremić was directly elected by the majority of world’s nations to be the President of the 67th session of the UN General Assembly, in the first contested vote since the end of the Cold War. During his term in office he played a leading role in steering the UN towards the establishment of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).

President Jeremić served as Serbia’s Minister of Foreign Affairs from 2007 to 2012. In 2007, he chaired the Council of Europe’s Committee of Ministers. He has lectured at major universities, think tanks, and institutes around the world, as well as published opinion pieces in leading outlets including The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Wall Street Journal, Financial Times and Le Monde.

President Jeremić holds a bachelor’s degree in Theoretical and Experimental Physics from Cambridge University and a master’s degree in Public Administration and International Development from Harvard University’s John F. Kennedy School of Government.

President Jeremić was named a Young Global Leader (YGL) by the World Economic Forum in 2013 and appointed to the Leadership Council of the United Nations Sustainable Development Solutions Network (UN SDSN) in 2014. From 2014 to 2016, he served as the first Co-chair of SiLKS (Global Silk Road Think Tank Network), together with Chinese Minister Li Wei, President of the Development Research Center (DRC) of the State Council. He currently serves on the High Level Steering Committee of the UN Global Compact Action Platform on Sustainable Infrastructure for the Belt and Road Initiative to Accelerate the SDGs.

President Jeremić served as the President of the Serbian Tennis Federation from 2011 to 2015.