Dragan Đilas
| Dragan Đilas | |
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| 72nd Mayor of Belgrade | |
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In office 19 August 2008 – 18 November 2013 |
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| Deputy | Milan Krkobabić Tatjana Pašić |
| Preceded by |
Nenad Bogdanović Zoran Alimpić (Acting) Branislav Belić (Acting) |
| Succeeded by | Siniša Mali |
| Minister without portfolio in charge of the National Investment Plan | |
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In office 15 May 2007 – 7 July 2008 |
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| Prime Minister | Vojislav Koštunica |
| Preceded by | Position established |
| Succeeded by | Verica Kalanović |
| Director of the People's Office of the President | |
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In office 11 July 2004 – 15 May 2007 |
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| President | Boris Tadić |
| Preceded by | Position established |
| Succeeded by | Tatjana Pašić |
| Personal details | |
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22 February 1967 Belgrade, SR Serbia, SFR Yugoslavia |
| Political party | Democratic Party (2004-2016) |
| Spouse(s) | Milica Delević (1994–2007) Iva Pelević (2009–2013) |
| Children | Sofija Jovana Ana Vuk |
| Alma mater | University of Belgrade |
| Religion | Serbian Orthodoxy |
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Dragan Đilas (Serbian Cyrillic: Драган Ђилас, pronounced [drǎɡan d͡ʑîlaːs], born 22 February 1967 in Belgrade, Serbia, SFR Yugoslavia) is a Serbian politician and businessman who was the Mayor of Belgrade from 2008 to 2013.
From 25 November 2012 until 31 May 2014, he served as the President of the Demokratska Stranka (DS), the nation's main opposition party.
As a member of the Democratic Party (DS), Đilas has been the mayor of the Serbian capital city since 2008. He served as the Minister without Portfolio in charge of the National Investment Plan in the 2007-2008 Cabinet of Serbia and prior to that as the director of the People's Office of the President between 2004 and 2007.
On 18 April 2011 Đilas became the President of Basketball Federation of Serbia (KSS). He resign in November 2016.
Đilas graduated from the University of Belgrade Faculty of Mechanical Engineering in the aerospace engineering program.
He worked as journalist at Radio Index. On 15 May 1989, part of Radio Index merged with Ritam Srca radio programme thus forming Radio B92, meaning that Đilas was one of the new station's founders. He soon became a news editor at the station.
Simultaneously, Đilas was active in opposing the rule of Slobodan Milošević, leading the student protests in 1991 and 1992. On 19 March 1991, only ten days following the violent March 9th Protest that claimed two lives and the ensuing student clashes with the police, Milošević (at that time the President of Serbia) came to the University of Belgrade in order to face the students where student leader Đilas got a chance to address him in an uncomfortable encounter recorded by the TV cameras. Later, Đilas was part of an official student delegation that Milošević received. As a student leader/activist, in June 1992, Đilas appeared on RTS interview programme Razgovor s povodom thus getting 50 minutes of air time on state television, which he used to further criticize Milošević's policies. All throughout this period Đilas continuously received offers from two largest opposition parties at that time, the Serbian Renewal Movement (SPO) and the Democratic Party (DS) to join their ranks, but he refused.
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