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.sc. Zivojin Bumbasirevic, MD, CC, SANU, AMR, cLd'H, Prof. Emeritus of the Belgrade University. Received: Medal Purkiniana and Medal Freyk (Brno University), Priorov Medal (CITO University of Moscow), Roman Medical Academy Medal, etc. Honorary Member of SICOT, of the Orthopaedic Societies of France, Italy, Czechoslovakia, Germany and Hungary, Honorary Member of the Society of Traumatologists of Hungary, Member of the International Organization of Surgeons and of the International Surgeons' College. Born in Krusevac (Serbia), 1920. Married, father of two sons. Resides in Belgrade (Serbia, Yugoslavia) University Professor, Specialist for Orthopaedic Surgery. 

Over 350 published works in the field of Orthopaedic Surgery and Traumatology. Author of the following works: Painful Hondrosternal Tumefaction, "Teitze Syndrome", Serbian Archive 87 (1959), Congenital Luxation of the Upper Part of Radius Combined with the Congenital Luxation of the Femur, Serbian Archive 87 (1959, with Lj.Jankovic)), Monteggia fracture-dislocation. J.Bone joint Surg., 45 B (1963, with S.Popovic), Arthrodesis of Spine With an    Autospinal Transplant, Serbian Archive 92 (1964), Shaft-Epiphyseal resection in cases with bone neoplasms of the knee, Ortopedia i travmatologia, 5 (1968), Electrophorese de la vitamine B12 denas le traitment de la douleur cervicale, Rheumatologie 21 (1969, with S.Marenic), Osteite paratipique due au Salmonella cholerae suis Kunzendorf, Rev.Chir.Orthop. 57 (1971, with M.Dosen), Analyse des resultats neurologique chez 225 cas de paraplegie et tetraplegie traumatique. Rev.Chir.Orthop. 58 (1972, with M.Dosen), Modifications radiographiques osteo-articulaires chez les lutteurs. Rev. Chir.Orthop., 60 (1974, with others), Aplikace castecne zevni opory paraplegikoum. Acta Chir.Orthop.Traumatol.Chech. 45 (1978, with others), Changes on the Bone System in Diabetes Mellitus. Dabetes Mellitus (ed. D.Djuric, 1982), Haemophilian Arthropathy and von Willebrand's Illness: A Comparative Radiographic Study, Medical Research 15 (1982), Maligne Knochentumoren in der Knieregion. Beitr.Orthop.Traumatol., 31 (1984, with P.Buzdon), Verkersverletzungen bei haemophiliepatienten, Beitr.Orthop.Traumatol. 32 (1985, with M.Bumbasirevic), Valeur de certains signes radiologique dans le diagnostic de l'arthropatie hÈmophilique. Boll.Atti. Acad.Med.Roma, 112 (1988), Comparative Radiographic and Histopathological Study of the Limbal Portion of Spine, Voice of SANU CCCLVII, Odelj.med.nauka knj.38 (1990), 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. 

Prof. Mladen Srbinovic, CC, SANU, MANU, Recipient of many awards in Belgrade, Cacak, Sicevo, Krusevac, Zagreb, Sao Paolo and Alexandria, among others: October Award of Belgrade (1958 and 1974), 7th July Award (1984), etc. MA and University (Arts Academy) Professor. Arts Academy Dean (from 1969). Born in 1925 in Susica (near Gostivar). Married, father of a daughter. Resides in Belgrade (Serbia, Yugoslavia). Many painings, tapestry cartons and mosaics, including three mosaic cicluses in the Municipality Building of Krusevac and mosaic Throne Icons of the Monastery of Zica. First exhibition of his works in 1948, first own exhibition in 1955, first exhibition abroad (1969, Stockholm), two retrospective exhibitions (1981 and 1985). 

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.