Boris Tadić

From 1980 to 1996, he was married to Veselinka Zastavniković, a journalist. They had no children and later got divorced.

Later, he married Tatjana Rodić, with whom he has two daughters.

He was born on January 15, 1958, in Sarajevo, the capital of the People's Republic of Bosnia and Herzegovina, to Ljubomir, a philosopher, and his wife, Nevenka, a psychologist.

When he was three years old, his family moved to Belgrade where his father got a job at the newspaper ‘Liberation’. He received his elementary education and matriculated from the ‘First Belgrade Gymnasium’ in Dorćol.

Later, he attended the ‘University of Belgrade’ and graduated from the Faculty of Philosophy with a degree in psychology. While in college, he was arrested for ‘participating in the demonstrations demanding that arrested students be released from detention’ and was imprisoned for a month.

He started his career as a journalist, then worked as a military clinical psychologist and later served as a professor of psychology at the ‘First Belgrade Gymnasium’. He also worked as a lecturer of political advertising at the Faculty of Drama, University of Belgrade.

In 1990, he became one of the co-founders of the Democratic Party (DS) and the organization that succeeded it, the Socialist Party of Serbia (SPS). The primary objective of this political formation was to bring to an end the monopoly power of the then President Slobodan Milosevic and call for democratic elections.

In 2000, he was appointed as the Minister of Telecommunications in the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia and served as the Minister of Defense of Serbia and Montenegro from March 2003. He also served as a Member of Parliament of the Democratic Party in the parliament and later on as its vice-speaker.

He served two terms as the deputy leader of the Democratic Party before being elected as the new leader in 2004, following the assassination of Zoran Đinđić. As the newly elected Democratic Party leader, he was nominated as the party’s candidate for the 2004 presidential elections.

In the 2004 elections, he defeated his opponent, Tomislav Nikolić of the nationalist Radical Party. On July 11, 2004, he took office as the President of Serbia.

As the president of Serbia, he devoted himself to promoting the privatization of public services and stabilizing the economy of Serbia for better future prospects.