Abbreviations:

PC= Privy Council Member 

CC= Crown Council Member 

GCSK=Grand Cross Order of the Star of Karageorge 

GCBO=Grand Cross Order of the double-headed White Eagle 

GCCY=Grand Cross Order of the Crown of Yugoslavia 

GCStS=Grand Cross Order of St. Sava 

S1 =First Class Order of Saint Sava of the Serbian Orthodox Church 

cLd'H =Knight Order of the Legion of Honour 

HT =Hausorden der Treue of Grand Duchy of Baden 

Ann =Supreme Order of the Most Holy Annunciation of the House of Savoy 

SANU =Member of Serbian Academy of Sciences And Arts 

SAZU =Member of Slovenian Academy of Sciences And Arts 

MANU =Macedonian Academy of Sciences & Art Member 

AMR =Academia Medica di Roma Member 

SICOT =International Society of Orthopaedic Surgeons and Traumatologists 

## = Position in the advisory body dormant 

Hereditary Prince Peter was born 5 February 1980 in Chicago, Illinois. He is the eldest son of HRH Crown Prince Alexander and HIRH Princess Maria da Gloria of Orleans and Braganza. Prince Peter is the grandson of HM King Peter II and HM Queen Alexandra. His Godfather is HRH Prince Alexander of Yugoslavia, son of HRH Prince Regent Paul of Yugoslavia.

HRH Hereditary Prince Peter lived in Chicago until the end of 1981, when he moved with his parents to Virginia. In 1983, he first attended morning pre-school in Tyson's Corner, Virginia, following this he went to day school. In 1988 at the age of eight, he was a student at one of London's top preparatory day schools. In June 1998, he graduated from The King’s School Canterbury in England having obtained three “A” level's in Art, Spanish and French, and ten GCSE’s (General Certificate of Secondary Education). In 1999, Prince Peter completed in London an art foundation course at Camberwell College of Arts (London Institute). In May 2000, Prince Peter concluded a series art programmes on the European continent mainly in Barcelona and Seville. Prince Peter spent a year at Rhode Island School of Design (RISD) on the East Coast of the United States. He is currently working in the field of graphic design and computer technologies.

Prince Peter speaks English, Spanish and French, and is continuing with his Serbian studies.

Before the 5 October 2000 revolution, Prince Peter travelled to Serbia in 1991 and in July 2000. On 17 July 2001, Prince Peter and The Royal Family took up residence in The Royal Palace in Belgrade. He has travelled throughout Europe, the United States, and has visited the Middle East, South East Asia, Central and South America.

His Royal Highness Prince Philip was born in Fairfax, Virginia on 15 January 1982. He is the fraternal twin of Prince Alexander and second in the line to the Throne after Hereditary Prince Peter. He is the son of HRH Crown Prince Alexander of Yugoslavia and HIRH Princess Maria da Gloria of Orleans Braganza. Prince Philip is the grandson of the HM King Peter II and HM Queen Alexandra. His Godparents are HM King Constantine of the Hellenes, HM the Queen of Spain and HRH the Duchess of Calabria.

Prince Philip lived in Virginia until 1984. Together with his twin brother, he first attended kindergarten in London. In 1990 at the age of eight, he attended one of London's top preparatory schools. In June 2000, Prince Philip graduated from The King’s School Canterbury in England having obtained three “A” level's in Spanish, Government and Politics, and Geography, and ten GCSE’s (General Certificate of Secondary Education). He partook in an exchange programme with a Spanish University in Madrid. Prince Philip graduated from University College London (UCL) with a Bachelor Degree of Arts. Prince Philip is now working for a foreign financial institution in the City of London.

Prince Philip speaks English, Spanish and French, and is continuing his Serbian studies.

Prince Philip enjoys skate boarding, surfing, scuba diving and snowboarding. He is interested in painting, music, computers and science. Before the 5 October 2000 revolution, he travelled to Serbia in 1991 and Bosnia in 2000. On 17 July 2001 Prince Philip and The Royal Family took up residence in The Royal Palace in Belgrade. He has travelled throughout Europe, the United States, and has visited the Middle East, South East Asia, Central and South America.

His Royal Highness Prince Alexander  was born in Fairfax Virginia 15 January 1982. He is the fraternal twin of Prince Philip and he is third in the line to the Throne after his elder brothers Hereditary Prince Peter and Prince Philip. He is the son of HRH Crown Prince Alexander of Yugoslavia and HIRH Princess Maria da Gloria of Orleans Braganza. Prince Alexander is the grandson of the HM King Peter II and HM Queen Alexandra. His Godparents are HM the Queen of Spain, HM King Constantine of the Hellenes, and HRH the Duchess of Calabria.

Prince Alexander lived in Virginia until 1984. Together with his twin brother, Prince Philip, he first attended kindergarten in London. In 1990 at the age of eight, Prince Alexander attended one of London's top preparatory schools. In June 2000, Prince Alexander graduated from King’s School Canterbury in England having obtained three “A” level's in Spanish, French, Government and Politics, and ten GCSE’s (General Certificate of Secondary Education). He went to the University of San Francisco (USF) and obtained a Bachelor of Arts degree in Communications and Media. Prince Alexander is currently in graduate school at an American university completing a Master of Fine Arts Degree (MFA) in Advertising (Art Direction).

Prince Alexander enjoys Art, Photography, Music, French Cinema, Current Affairs, Surfing, Snowboarding, Scuba Diving, Museums, Cuisine, Literature, Tennis, Basketball and Football. He speaks English, Spanish and French and is continuing his Serbian studies

Before the 5 October 2000 revolution, Prince Alexander travelled to Serbia in 1991 and Bosnia in 2000. On 17 July 2001, Prince Alexander and The Royal Family took up residence in The Royal Palace in Belgrade. He has travelled throughout Europe, the United States, and has visited the Middle East, South East Asia, Central and South America.

Dragomir Acovic, PC, Architect. Senior Partner of "Grifon" Comp. President of the Serbian Society for Heraldry, Genealogy, Vexillology and Phaleristics The White Eagle; the Chief Herald and Co-Chairman of the Register of Arms; Editor of The Stemmatography of the Serbian Heraldry Society. Member of Orders and Medals Society of America, Orders and Medals Research Society of UK, Swiss Phaleristic Society, Union of German Phalerists (BDOS) and of heraldic societies of England, Ukraine and Russia. Member of the European Society of Culture. President RC Belgrade-Singidunum (1996/7). Member of Federal Committees for the Armorial Achievement of the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia, and for the Preparation of the Federal Law about Orders, Decorations and Medals. Member of the Editorial Board of "The Yearbook of the Belgrade Museum", Board Member of several societies and associations. Born in 1943 in Belgrade. Married, father of two daughters and a son. Resides in Belgrade (Serbia, Yugoslavia). 

Principal works: As an Architect: many projects, among them Military Academy of the Arrny in Belgrade, St.Stephen Church at Brezovica (under construction), projects in Republic of Sao Tomè and Prìncipe (Plano Director de Desenvolvimento do Turismo), Maldive Islands, Mongolia, Nepal, Cuba, Egypt, Djibouti, Somalia, Iraq, etc. As Herald: Heraldic systems of municipal. territorial, corporate and family armorial bearings in Serbia, Heraldic revision of the armorial bearings of Begrad, Flag of Belgrade, municipal Arms of six Belgrade borroughs, Nis, Prijepolje, Budva, Bijeljina, Mionica, Topola, Kragujevac, Jagodina, etc. Phaleristic Monographs and other books: History of the Bulgarian Phaleristics, Royal Serbian Order of Milosh the Great, Serbs Outside of Serbia - Russian Serbs (with others), A Story about Belgrade (with others). More than 300 articles in the magazines (Architecture, Project Management, Heraldry, Phaleristics, Archontology, popular themes...) etc. 

Dušan Babac born on the 8th of September 1969 in Belgrade, has two sons, Vukašin (1998) and Rastko (2002). Nationality Serbian.

Education:
BSc. degree from the Faculty of Mining and Geology in May 1995, the Department of Hydrogeology.
MSc. degree in Hydrogeology in March 1998. MSc paper deals with ground water modelling in the neogen basin in Serbia.
Presently finishing the thesis for the PhD degree.

Professional experience:
September 2004 - present Manning Selvage & Lee Public Relations consultancy agency, Belgrade, as Client Service Director
April 2001 – September 2004 Chancellery of the HRH Crown Prince Alexander II, Belgrade, as Chief of Cabinet
May 1995 – May 2001 Engineering, designing and construction company "Balby International", Belgrade, as head engineer of the geology department and deputy executive manager.

Other activities:
• Member of the Privy Council of HRH Crown Prince Alexander II since September 2004 • Member of the Rotary Club International "Zemun" since September 2003, member of the managing board since July 2004
• Member of the Serbian Heraldry Society "White Eagle" since 1995, vice president since July 2003.
• Since January 2003, regular advisor of the documentary TV program “Arsenal” broadcasted by BK Television once a week.
• Regular collaborator of the distinguished French magazines dealing with the history and tradition "Gazette des Uniformes" since 1996 and Russian magazine "Zeughaus" since 1999.
• Published several scientific papers on the Serbian military history in the official gazette of the Serbian History Museum in Belgrade.
• Published a great number of popular articles in Slovenia ("Obramba"), Republika Srpska ("Aero Glas"), France ("Militaria Magazine") and Japan ("Air World") all very affirmative to Serbia and Yugoslavia and its history and tradition.
• Published book "Balkan Armies 1914-18" in England for Osprey publishing, Men-at-arms series as a co-author with Professor Nigel Thomas PhD from the Northrumbia University in Newcastle, UK.
• Co-author of the exhibition and the book "Official Dress in Serbia in 19th and 20th Century" in Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts (December 2001 / May 2002) which was described by the “Voice of America” as a "cultural event of the decade in Belgrade".

Mr Djordje NOVAKOVIC, journalist (United Kingdom) 
Djordje Novakovic, PC (appointed in 1992), journalist of the British Broadcasting Corporation from 1949 to 1983.  Life Member of the national Union of Journalists in the UK.  Born in Dubrovnik in 1923.  Resident in England since 1947.  Grammar school in Sibenik, Dalmatia.  Diploma in Theology, Dorchester College, England.  Married, one daughter and one son. 

Entire career spent with the BBC World Service Monitoring at Caversham Park near Reading, Berkshire.  Started in 1949 as a linguist (monitor) for Serbo-Croat and Italian and ended in 1983 as Deputy Head of Monitoring and head of the main department consisting  of a staff about 200, including 120 linguists.  Appointments in between included: Serbo-Croat Chief Monitor (1956), Supervisor Operations (1961).  Report Writer, mostly at the African desk (1968) and Senior News Sub-Editor, Newsroom (1970).  Had spells of duty in Africa (Malawi) and with the BBC Russian Service in Bush House, London. 

The Honorable Branko Terzic, PC, GCCY, international consulting engineer, former government official and corporate executive holds appointments as Royal Adjutant (1976), Member of the Privy Council (1991), and Delegate of HRH Crown Prince Alexander of Serbia in the USA.

Decorations include; Kt GC of the Order of the Crown of Yugoslavia, Kt. Order of Saints Maurice and Lazarus, Kt. Order of St. Michael of the Wing, Kt. of Merit of the S.M.O Constantinian of Saint George, Commendatore Cross of Merit of the S.M.O.M. (Military &Civil). Elected Fellow (“FRSA”) of The Royal Society for the encouragement of Arts, Manufactures and Commerce (RSA) in London, England

Government positions held include: Commissioner on the State of Wisconsin Public Service Commission, Chairman of the State of Wisconsin Racing Board and Commissioner on the U.S. Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC).

Professional affiliations include appointment as an Associate of the Bonbright Utilities Center of the University of Georgia (USA), member of the Energy Advisory Board at the Battelle Memorial Institute, Energy Bar Association (USA), member of the engineering societies ASME, IEEE, and CIGRE. In Serbia he is a member of The Serbian Literary Society “Matica Srpska”

Currently he is a Firm Director in Deloitte Services, LP. Prior positions include Chairman, Chief Executive Officer and President of Yankee Energy System, Inc, managing director in Arthur Anderson LLP, Group Vice-President of AUS Consultants. Educated with a Bachelor of Science in Engineering from the University of Wisconsin- Milwaukee and registration as a Professional Engineer and inducted member of the Order of the Engineer.

Dusan T. Batakovic, PC, Historian, Lecturer at the Department of History of the Faculty of Philosophy of the Belgrade University. Research Fellow at the Institute for Balkan Studies, Serbian Academy of Arts and Sciences, Belgrade. Current Research: Transition in the Balkans 1990-1996. Member of the Inner Council of the Serbian Democratic Club “Odbrana” (Defense), President of Council for Democratic Changes (for the Homeland). 

Born in Belgrade in 1957. Studied in Belgrade, Ma in History, PhD at the University of Paris-Sorbonne, Paris IV (France and the Creation of Parliamentary Democracy in Serbia 1830-1914). Widowed, father of two. 

Published books: The Decani Question (Belgrade, 1989), The French Revolution 1789-1989 (Belgrade, 1989), Kosovo-Metohia in Serbian History (Belgrade, 1989), Contemporaries on Kosovo-Metohia 1850-1912 (Belgrade, 1989), The Battle of Kolubara 1914 (Belgrade, 1989), Le Kosovo-Metohija dans l’histoire serbe (Lausanne, 1990), Kosovo-Metohia in Serbo-Albanian Relations (Pristina, 1991), Nacertanije of Ilija Garasanin (Beograd, 1991), The Kosovo Chronicles (Belgrade, 1992), Kosovo, la spirale de la haine (Lausanne, 1993), La Yougoslavie: nations, religions, ideologies (Lausanne, 1994), The Serbs of Bosnia and Herzegovina, History and politics (Paris, 1996), The Serbs and Their National Interest (San Francisco, 1997), Kosovo-Metohia; History and Ideology (Beograd-Valjevo-Srbinje, 1998), Cronica de la Kosovo (Bucuresti, 1999), etc. 

Matija Beckovic, CC, SANU, Poet, Writer, BSc (Philology, Yugoslav and General Literature), Recipient of numerous awards: Milan Rakic Award, Zmaj Award, Dis' Spring Award, Belovodska rozeta Award, Golden Cross of Prince Lazar, Ravnogorska Award, Stefan Mitrov Ljubisa Award, Grand Document of Bazijas, October Award, 7th July Award, Tipar Award, Njegos' Award, Desanka's Award, Milica Stojadinovic-Srpkinja, etc. Born in 1939 in Senta. Widower, father of two daughters. Author of numerous poems, essays and dramatic adaptations. 

Published books: Vera Pavladoljska (1962), Bullet Wanderer (1963), Thus Spoke Matija (1964, 1965), About Meanwhile (1968, 1979, 1985, 1986, 1990), Che - Tragedy Which Lasts (1970, 1989, with D.Radovic), A Fella' Told Me (1970, 1976), Mad Vuk's Boundary (1976, 1978), Woe Upon Woe (1980), Poems (1983, 1986), A Service to St. Sava (1987, 1989), About Njegos (1988), Kosovo, the Most Expensive Serbian Word (1989), It Is Said (1988, 1989), Whose Are You, Kid? (1989, 1990), Twenty One Poem (1990), Rooster of All Roosters (1990), Epiphany (1990), Selected Songs and Poems (1990), My Superior is Goethe (1990), Service (1990), Thus Speaks Matija (1990), Collected Poems (1990, 1992), This and That (1995), Signature (1995), We'll Tussle Some More (1996), Of Bread and Tongue (1997)  etc. 

Prof. Dr. Miroslav Gasic, CC, SANU, PhD in Chemistry, Professor of the Belgrade University (Faculty of Sciences), Head of the Organic Chemistry Department. Research associate, Worc. Found. for Experimental Biology, Shrewsburry (MA,USA, 1965/6), Research associate, UCLA, Chemistry Department (USA, 1966/7), Visiting scientist, Indiana University, Bloomington (Ind.USA, 1972/3), Visiting scholar Nat.Acad.Sci (Washington, USA, 1982 and 1990). Executive Board of the Serbian Chem. Society Member, President Union of Chem. societies of Yugoslavia, Member of American Chemistry Society and German Chemistry Society. Received October Award of Belgrade (1988). Born in 1932 in Belgrade. Married, father of two daughters. Resides in Belgrade (Serbia, Yugoslavia). Author of more than 90 scientific articles in international scientific journals, primarily about marine natural products (isolation, structure, biological activity), essential oils, organic reactions, etc. 

Prof. Dr. Dragoljub Kavran, CC. Professor of the Administrative Law of the Law Faculty of the Belgrade University. Vice-President of the Personnel Committee of the World Administrative Sciences Association, Fellow of the Public Administration Society of USA, American Management Academy and of the Management Academy of UK; President of the Association of Cadres Specialists of Yugoslavia, President of the Federal Committee for the Reorganizatiopn of the State Administration, Director of the Institute for Higher Education, Vice-President of the Federal Union for Administration. Professor and lecturer at the Law schools in Novi Sad. Kragujevac, Nis, Banja Luka, Zagreb, Ljubljana, and at the Management Faculties in Belgrade and Kranj. Visting Professor at universities in USA, Italy, UK, Portugal and Sweden.. Special technical Adviser for Public Administration of the UN General Secretary (1981/6). Born in 1933 in Belgrade. Married, father of a daughter. Resides in Belgrade (Serbia, Yugoslavia). Author of more than 260 articles and essays. Worked in more than 40 countries around the Globe on State Administration projects. Published books: Management in an International Context (with others),  Science of Management, Management and Interpersonal Relations, Organization and Methods, System of Monitoring and Development of Manpower (with others), Manpower Planning (with others), Management, Organization and Manpower, Management Law (with others), Dynamics of the Manpower Structures, etc. 

Dusan Kovacevic: CC, SANU, Writer, BSc (Dramatic Writing department of the Theatre, Film, Radio and Television Academy of Belgrade), Recipient of numerous awards: Joakim Vujic Award, Sterija Award (several), Marin Drzic Award, Milos Crnjanski Award, Branko Copic Award (twice), also Palme d'or of the Cannes film festival (1995, for screenplay of "The Underground"), awards of the international film festivals of Valencia, Marseilles, Vienna, also in German, Czech, Slovak, Polish and other film festivals, including First prize of the Cannes Television Festival, Festival of Montreal Award (for "A Hilarious Tragedy") in 1995 and for "Balkan Spy" at the same festival. First Chaplin Award at Vevey (for the film "Who Is Singing Out There?"). Born in 1948 in Mrdjanovac (�abac). Married, father of a son and a daughter. Resides in Belgrade (Serbia, Yugoslavia). 

Author of numerous plays, screenplays, TV and Radio works and books. Plays: Marathon Runners Running an Honorary Round (1973), Radovan III (1973), What Is It In a Human Being That Leads Him to Drink? (1976), Springtime in January (1977), An Outer Space Dragon (1977), A Village 'Lumination (1978), A Collection Center (1982), A Balkan Spy (1983), St. George Killing a Dragon (1986), A Claustrophobic Comedy (1987), A Professional (1990), A Hilarious Tragedy (1991), Larry Thompson - Tragedy of a Youth (1996); Screenplays: Beasts (1976), A Special Treatment (1978), Who Is Singing Out There? (1980), Marathon Runners Running an Honorary Round (1981), A Balkan Spy (1984), A Collection Center (1990), The Underground (1995), A Hilarious Tragedy (1995); TV Dramas: The Return of a Thief (1974), A Two-Room Cafe (1975), Stardust (1976); TV Series: A Long Lasting Resting Place (13 episodes, 1973/4), A Dwelling 'Twixt the Sky and Earth (13 episodes, 1976), There was Once a Country (6 episodes, 1996), etc. His works have been translated into 17 languages, the plays are being performed in Europe, UK and USA, by more than 100 professional theatres. 

Prof. Dr. Nikola Moravcevic, Dr. h.c.,  CC, Ph.D. in Comparative Literature. Professor at the University of Illinois in Chicago. Founder and Head of the Slavic Department (1968-81) and Vice-Chancellor (1981-988) at the University of Illinois in Chicago. Honorary Doctorate from the University of Wroclaw in Poland (1980). Founder and Editor of the American Scholarly Journal "Serbian Studies" (1980-94). Member of several American and international scholarly associations. Born in 1935 in Zagreb. Married, no children. Resides in Chicago and Belgrade (Serbia, Yugoslavia). 
Author of some 200 scholarly articles, essays and critical reviews concerning Russian, French and Serbian Literatures, published in various essay collections, ecyclopedias and such American and Canadian scholarly journals as: Comparative Literature, Slavic and East European Journal, Canadian Slavic Studies, Russian Literature, Drama Critique, Drama Survey, Comparative Drama, World Literature Today, Comparative Literature Studies, L'Europe du Sud-Est, Serbian Studies amd Slavic Review. Author of historical novel "Albion, Albion" (1994,1998) and large number of articles and notes in newspapers and journals of general interest. 
 

Prof. Dr. Pavle Nikolic, Dr.h.c.,  CC, Dr.iur., prof. Emeritus of the Belgrade University. Honoris causa Doctorate of the University of Rouen (France). Honorary Professor of Colegio Mayor de Nuestra Senora del Rosario of Bogota (Colombia, 1984), and Honorary Member of the Colombian Association for Constitutional Right. Founding Member and Secretary General of the International Association for Constitutional Law (1981/93), and Vice-President of the same Association since 1993. Founding Member and Vice-President of the International Academy of Constitutional Law (1984/96). Member of the Scientific Society of Serbia. Associate Professor of the Paris I University (Pantheon-Sorbonne) and of the Fribourg University (Switzerland). Was Vice-Dean of the Law Faculty of the Belgrade University, and Head of the Chair of the Political Sciences. Was Director of the Institute for Juridical and Social Sciences of the same Faculty, and. Constitutional Court of Serbia Judge. Born in 1928 in Belgrade. Has a son. Resides in Belgrade (Serbia, Yugoslavia). He lead ten doctoral and postgraduate courses, and gave 53 conferences at 42 Universities in 18 countries (among others: France, Poland, Italy, Spain, Hungary, Russia, Iraq, Mexico, Egypt, Algeria, Switzerland, Germany, Colombia, Japan, Tunisia, Greece, Netherlands, China, etc.). Participated as general national representative at more than 40 congresses and international conferences. Published 170 works, studies and articles. Published books: Constitutional Law, Federation and Federal Units, Parliamentary System, Federal Parliament in the Constitutional and Political System of Yugoslavia, De le dèsagrègation jusqu'au dèsespoire et l'espoire, etc. 

Prof. Dr. Predrag Palavestra, PhD., CC, SANU. Recipient of several awards: April Award of Sarajevo (1966), Milan Bogdanovic Award (1969), Djordje Jovanovic Award (1980), etc. Head of the Department for Language and Literature of the Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts. Served as Editor of literary magazines "Knjizevne novine" and "Savremenik". Frequent literary critic in several newspapers and magazines. Director of the Institute for Literature and Art in Belgrade and University Lecturer at the Universities of London, Notthingham, Copenhagen, Oslo, Uppsala, Zagreb, Trieste, University of Victoria (The Landsdowne Lectures), Ottawa and "Queen's" (Canada), as well as at the Western Washington State University (Bellingham). President Serbian P.E.N. Centre and Member of the Advisory Board of the "Literary Research" of the International Comparative Literature Association. Born in 1930. Married, father of a son. Resides in Belgrade (Serbia, Yugoslavia). 

Author of many published works, among others: Literary Themes (Essays, 1958), Literature of Young Bosnia (Monograph, 1965), Post-War Serbian Literature (Monograph, 1972), Dogma and Utopia of Dimitrije Mitrinovic, Beginnings of the Serbian Literary Avantgarde (Monograph, 1977), Hidden Poet: Ivo Andric (Critical biography, 1981), Critical Literature (Essays, 1983), Heritage of the Serbian Modernism (Essays, 1985), History of Modern Serbian Literature (Literature history, 1986), Literature as Criticism of Ideology (Essays, 1991), A Book about Andric (Monograph, 1992), Literature and Public Speech (Commentaries, 1994), Literary Polemics (Essays, 1995), etc. 

Prof. Dr. Milorad Pavic, CC, SANU; PhD in literature, Prof. Emeritus of the Novi Sad and Belgrade Univerisities. Member of the European Society of Culture and of the INternational Council of the Moscow periodical "Inostrannaya Literatura". Received many awards, among them: Mesa Selimovic Award, 7th July Award, NIN Award for the Book of the Year, AVNOJ Award, Prosveta Award, University Library Award, Great Gold Ring of Belgrade, etc. Born in 1929 in Belgrade. Married, father of a son and a daughter. Resides in Belgrade (Serbia, Yugoslavia). 

Author of many books, with more than 60 translations throughout the world. Poems: Palimpsests (1965), Moonstone (1967); stories: The Iron Curtain (1963), The Russian Greyhound (1979), The Horses of St. Mark (1973), Souls are Bathing For the Last Time (1982), Turned Out Glove (1989); novels: A Little Nocturnal Novel (1981), Dictionary of the Khazars (1984), A Landscape Painted with Tea (1988), The Inner Side of the Wind (1991), Last Love in Constantinople (1994), A Fishskin Hat (1995); literary history: History of the Serbian Literature of the Baroque (1970), Vojislav Ilic, His Time and Work (1972), History of the Serbian Literature During Classicism and Preromanticism (1979), The Birth of New Serb Literature (1983); poetic translations of Pushkin in verse: Gypsies, Small House in Kolomna and Evgeny Onyegin, etc. 

Prof. Dr.Slobodan Perovic, CC, SAZU, Dr.iur., Professor of the Faculty of Law of the Belgrade University and Head of the Civil Law Chair. President of the Scientific Society of Serbia. President of the Iurists' Association of Yugoslavia. Arbiter of the International Commerical Arbitrage. Founder of the Kopaonik School of the Natural Law. Editor of the Pravni zivot magazine, of the Scientific Review magazine, and Chairman of the Editorial Board of the Library Classics of the Yugosolav Law. Editor in Chief and Redactor of the General Enciplopaedia of Law, etc. Born in 1932 in Prokuplje. Married, father of a daughter and a son. Resides in Belgrade (Serbia, Yugoslavia). 

Author of many books, among them: Obligational Law, Formal Contracts in Civil Law, Forbidden Contracts in Property Relations, Retroactivity of the Law - Theory of Legal Conflict in Time, Legal-Philosophical Polemics, Natural Right and Court, Justice and Acquired Rights, Commutative Justice and Damage Compensation, A State of Law and Crisis of the Justice System, Theory of Public Order, Contract as an Act of Moral and Law-Based Civilization, Justice and the Dignity of the Court, Property Question, Let Us Return to the School of the Natural Law, Hexagon of the Natural Law, Between Carnality and Wisdom of the Law, Three Fallacies - Obstacles to the Establishment of the State of Law, Legality of the Natural Rights, Prolongatio iuris naturalis, etc. 

Mrs. Svetlana Velmar-Jankovic, CC, literary awards: Isidora Sekulic Award (1969), Ivo Andric Award (1982), Mesa Selimovic Award (1991), National Library Award for Most Read Book (1992), Djordje Jovanovic Award (1994), Bora Stankovic Award (1995), NIN Award for Best Novel (1996), etc. BSc in French and Latin languages and French literature. Former Editor of the Prosveta Publishing House. Born in 1933 in Belgrade. Married, mother of a son (also an Author). Author of several published works, among them Novels: The Scar (1956), The Hole of Darkness (1990) and A Bottomless Pit (1995), Stories Dorcol (1981) and Vracar (1994), Essays The Contemporaries (1968) and The Accursed Ones (1993), etc. 

Prof. Dr. Dragomir Vitorovic, CC, SANU, PhD in Chemistry, Prof. Emeritus of Belgrade University (Faculty of Science). One of Founders of the Institute of Chemistry, Technology and Metallurgy, Belgrade (1961), Research Leader at its Center of Chemistry, heading the Organic Geochemistry Division. President of the Serbian Chemical Society (1977/81), Honorary Life President since 1982. Titular Member of the Committee on Teaching Chemistry of the International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry (1973-81), Member of the Editorial Board of Journal of the Serbian Chemical Society, Organic Geochemistry (Pergamon), AOSTRA Journal of Research (AOSTRA, Edmonton, Canada), Chemical Review (Serbian Chemical Society). Invited lecturer at many national and international meetings in Europe, North and South America and Asia. Organizer of ESOC 6. ILO Fellow (1957-58) in Kvarntorp (Sweden), National Research Council of Canada Postdoctoral Fellow (1961-63), in Ottawa (Canada), Reserach Associate, Department of Chemistry, MIT (1968), Cambridge (USA). Received October Award of Belgrade (1972 and 1988), and of Serbian Chemical Society Medal for outstanding contributions to the science (1992). Born in 1926, in Belgrade. Married. Resides in Belgrade (Serbia, Yugoslavia). 

Published 170 scientific papers, mainly in the field of organic geochemistry, 2 patents, 10 monographs, 12 university or secondary school textbooks, 20 professional papers, 160 papers presented at international or Yugoslav meetings. 

Mr. Predrag Marković, writer and translator from Belgrade. Graduated at the Faculty of political sciences at Belgrade University in 1980. Received advanced training in the studies of history and culture in Madrid and Barcelona (Spain).

Current functions: 2001-present: president of the Political Council of G17 PLUS and member of the Executive Board; 1993-present: owner of publishing house “Stubovi kulture”; 2000-2001: president of the Administrative Board of G17 PLUS.

Worked as editor in chief of newspapers “Student“, “Književna reč” and “Vreme”, magazines “Vidici”, “Književnost” and editions “Albatros“, “Pegaz“, “Retrospektive“.

Membership and functions in trade or other organizations: member of PEN society and Serbian Writers Society, president of Society of publishers and booksellers of Serbia and Montenegro.

The most important published books: “Smiling lions ought to come”, “ Nobility of the soul”.

The main areas of investigation- history of political ideas of 19th and 20th  century at the Balkans. He speaks Russian language fluently and has passive knowledge of Spanish language.

Bogoljub Šijaković Ph. D., Born in Nikšić, Montenegro in 1955, where he finished primary school (1970) grammar school (1974). He graduated (1981) and obtained a master’s degree in philosophy at the Faculty of Philosophy at Belgrade University (1986); he took his PhD in philosophy at the Faculty of Philosophy in Sarajevo in 1989. He received advanced training in Germany and Greece and he works as a professor of philosophy at the Faculty of Nikšić, Montenegro. Since October 2000 he has became the Federal Minister of Religion. He is married and has two children.  

Dr. MILAN PARIVODIC

Milan Parivodic was born in Belgrade in 1966. His father was Slobodan, and his mother Olga, born Lazic. 

He graduated at the University of Belgrade Law School in 1990 cum magna laude, he got his B.Sc. at the Division for Intellectual Property in 1995, with the thesis “Contract on exclusive distribution of goods”. He also has the title of Bachelor of Science in international business law, which he got in London in 1997, at the University College London. He passed his bar exam in Belgrade in 1998, and the patent representative exam in 2001. In that capacity he was registered at the Federal Institute for Intellectual Property. He has been a judicial translator for English since 1991. He defended his PhD thesis “Contract on Franchising” cum magna laude at the University of Belgrade Law School in 2002. 

Dr. Parivodic is an assistant teacher at the Cathedra for civil law at the University of Belgrade Law School. 

So far he has published essays “Contract on exclusive distribution in the legal systems of Yugoslavia and the EU” (1996) and “International Franchising Law” (2003), as well as many works in the international and local law magazines dealing in contract law, intellectual property law, competition law and distribution law. 

For the last three years he has worked intensively in the modernization of our legal system. He participated in writing of the Law on religious freedom and the draft of the Law on trade. He is a consultant to the Ministries in various trade law issues including the Law on leasing (2003) and the Law on mortgage (2003). He is a regular attendee of expert conferences either as an introductory or key speaker. He also delivered lectures to all trade court judges of Serbia on the competition law and modern means of debt claiming. He is engaged as a legal consultant by the World Bank, International Financial Corporation, UNDP, USAID and other organizations that help advancement of our legal system He is a member of the editorial board of the Journal of International Franchising magazine from Richmond, London. 

He is the founder and the partner of the attorney-at-law office Parivodic, Milojkovic & Trgovcevic. As a patent representative Dr. Parivodic is the secretary of the national group AIPPI for Serbia and Montenegro. He consults mostly foreign companies and banks about complex business transactions. 

He is married to Alexandra and has a daughter Olga.