Ambassador

Irena ŠARAC         

                        

E-mail:

irena.sarac@mfa.rs

 

Date of Birth:         April 9th 1980

Place of Birth:        Belgrade

                              Republic of Serbia

 

EDUCATION:

  • October 2008  –  July 2012

        Special Academy Studies (pre PhD studies) - International relations

“Multilateralism of the 21 century – relations of forces and manifestation of power in the United Nations”  

     Faculty of Political Sciences, Belgrade, Serbia

                            ●    October 2005 – June 2006

                                  Diplomatic Academy of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Serbia

  • October 1999 – February 2004

Bachelor Degree

Philological Faculty of University of Belgrade

Department for Chinese language and literature

  • 1995 – 1999  

Philological (Foreign Languages) Grammar School, Belgrade (Chinese language)

 

WORK EXPERIENCE: 

  • June 2023   –  Acting Assistant Minister for Bilateral Cooperation, Ambassador
  • May 2021 – June 2023

Head of Asia, Australia and the Pacific Department

  • February 2019 – May 2021

Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Serbia

Sector for Bilateral Cooperation

Minister Counsellor/Coordinator

August 2017 – February 2019

Sector for Bilateral Cooperation

Counsellor/First Counsellor

  • November 2016 – August 2017

Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Serbia

Department for Asia, Australia and the Pacific, Far East Division

Counsellor (in charge of bilateral relations of Republic of Serbia and China/DPRK/RK)

(April 2017 – May 2017)

Embassy of the Republic of Serbia, Beijing, China

- Counsellor (assisting during the “Belt and Road Forum” in Beijing)

  • January 2013 – October 2016

Embassy of the Republic of Serbia to the Hellenic Republic

First Secretary/Counsellor for Political Affairs, Culture and Press

  • November 2005 – January 2013

Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Serbia

Department for Asia, Australia and the Pacific, Far East Division

- Second/Third Secretary (in charge of bilateral relations of Republic of Serbia and China/DPRK/Mongolia/RK)

(July 2008 – October 2008)

Embassy of the Republic of Serbia, Beijing, China

- Third Secretary (assisting during the Olympic and Paralympic Games)

  • May 2005 – November 2005

Protocol Department of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs

Trainee/Attaché

  • February 2004 – January 2005

Chinese-English interpreter

 

LANGUAGES:         English, Chinese, Spanish and basic knowledge of French