Dragiša Burzan

Who is Dragiša Burzan?

Dragiša Burzan has been the Serbia and Montenegro ambassador to London since 2004. Before his diplomatic appointment, he was the Minister of Foreign Affairs of Montenegro between 2003 and 2004.

Burzan attended school in Titograd, then part of Yugoslavia. He attended the University of Montenegro, where he received a bachelor's degree in electrical engineering, and went on to receive a master's degree in nuclear physics from the University of Belgrade and a Ph.D. in theoretical physics from the University of Essex, England.

He became a professor at the University of Montenegro in the Department of Natural Sciences pursuing research in physics; he there from 1976 through 1998, although he became active in politics by the late 1980s.

In 1989, he founded Democratic Alternative, an association at the University of Montenegro promoting democratic reforms in what was then still Yugoslavia.

In 1991, he was a member of Reform Forces of Yugoslavia, led by Ante Markovic, the last Prime Minister of Yugoslavia.

In 1992, he was one of the founders of the Social Democratic Party of Montenegro and was elected to Parliament, where he served from 1992 through 1996. He also served as the SDP's International Secretary, a post he held continuously apart from an interruption from July 1994 to October 1995, and served as the vice-president of the party from 1996 to 2000.