Vuk Jeremić is a Serbian diplomat who served as Serbia’s Minister of Foreign Affairs between 2007 and 2012 and President of the 67th session of the United Nations General Assembly between September 2012 and September 2013.

Mr. Jeremić graduated from Cambridge and Harvard in 1998 and 2003, respectively, and was active in several pro-democracy student movements during the 1990s. In the early 2000s, he joined what The New York Times deemed Serbia’s “most westward-leaning government” as an advisor to President Boris Tadić. In May 2007, while Tadić was still in office, Mr. Jeremić was appointed as Minister of Foreign Affairs.

Mr. Jeremić remains the youngest person ever to have served as President of the United Nations General Assembly, having been elected in 2012. His tenure saw Palestine granted non-member observer status in the General Assembly, the General Assembly’s adoption of the Arms Trade Treaty (ATT), which aimed to regulate international conventional weapons commerce, and the proclamation of 6 April as the International Day of Sport for Development and Peace.

Mr. Jeremić describes himself as a “fervent, pro-European politician”. He is the current president of the Center for International Relations and Sustainable Development (CIRSD) and editor-in-chief of Horizons, an English-language global public policy magazine. Mr. Jeremić was a candidate in the race to succeed Ban Ki-moon as United Nations Secretary-General in 2016, finishing second overall, behind eventual winner António Guterres.