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Svetlana Velimirovic
Deputy Commissioner

Born in 1967, Belgrade. Graduated from the Faculty of Medicine, University of Belgrade. After passing the vocational exam she was awarded the general practitioner specialist qualification in 2001. She also passed the state examination.

Spent the most extensive part of her career at the Commissariat for Refugees of the Republic of Serbia in the position of an advisor (independent associate) for monitoring the access to rights in the area of health care. Proposed projects aiming at sheltering refugees with health problems. Cooperated with international, national, governmental and non-governmental organizations. Took part in programming and formulation of projects for EU pre-accession funds.

During her entire professional career she has had direct contact with clients in solving their problems and challenges, as well as problems of various groups. 

Appointed Assistant Commissioner in July 2008.

Appointed Deputy Commssioner in March 2009.

Speaks English. Married, two children. 

 

 

Dusica Popovic

Acting Assistant Commissioner of the Commissariat for Refugees and Migration - Sector for Reception, Protection, Readmission, Durable Solutions and Asylum

Dusica Popovic was born in Belgrade in 1978. She holds a degree in economics from the University of Belgrade.

She has many years of work experience in Human Resource Management in companies in the private sector.

She was a member of Parliament in the National Assembly of the Republic of Serbia where she actively participated in the work of the Committee for Work, Social Inclusion and Poverty Reduction in the period from 2012-2014.

She has many years of experience in the field of social protection in the City of Belgrade, where, as assistant secretary of the Secretariat for Social Protection, she led the Sector for Refugees, Internally Displaced Persons and Migration. She directly participated in the work with refugees and internally displaced persons in providing assistance in exercising their rights, as well as in providing housing for refugees and improving housing conditions for internally displaced persons while they are in displacement. As a member of the Migration Management Council of the City of Belgrade and the City Commissioner for Refugees and Migration for the City of Belgrade, she participated in the development of the first Action Plan of the City of Belgrade for the improvement of the position of refugees, internally displaced persons and returnees based on the Agreement on Readmission for the period from 2020-2024.

She worked as head of Department for Migration and European Integration in the Commissariat for Refugees and Migration of the Republic of Serbia as a senior advisor. In December 2022, the Government of the Republic of Serbia appointed her as acting Assistant Commissioner.

 

She speaks English. She is married, mother of two children.

 

 

 

 

Ana Supica

Acting Assistant Commissioner of the Commissariat for Refugees and Migration - Sector for General, Legal, Personnel and Administrative Affairs

 

Ana Supica, was born in Belgrade in 1981. She holds a degree of Faculty of Law from the University of Belgrade.

She started her professional career in law and in private sector in legal and organizational work.

She has over 13 years of work experience in the City Administration of Belgrade, out of which 5 years in the field of public procurement, and 8 years in the field of social protection. In the Secretariat for Social Protection, she was the Head of Department for Second Instance Procedures and Normative-Legal Affairs in the Sector for Social, Veterans and Disability Protection and Supervision and the Head of the Sector for Planning, Building and Monitoring of the activities of social protection institutions.

During the time when she was Head of the Sector, a day care center for children with developmental disorders was built in Lazarevac, and the construction of a day care center in Barajevo also started. Three day care centers have been completely reconstructed and equipped, 10 Clubs for the elderly and 7 departments of the City Center for Social Welfare have also been completely reconstructed and equipped.

She was a member of working and professional groups in the field of social protection, work and employment, as well as the housing commission of the City of Belgrade and the construction of Belgrade.

She worked as Head of Department for General and Personnel Affairs in the Commissariat for Refugees and Migration of the Republic of Serbia. In December 2022, the Government of the Republic of Serbia appoints her as acting Assistant Commissioner.

She speaks English and French. She is the mother of one child.