The Council

Dr. Srgjan Kerim

Dr. Srgjan Kerim is General Manager of the WAZ Media Group for South-Eastern Europe and General Manager of “Media Print Macedonia”. He was President of the 62nd Session of UN General Assembly. He was Macedonian Foreign Minister in 2000 and 2001. From 2001 to 2003, he was Ambassador, Permanent Representative of the Republic of Macedonia to the United Nations in New York. During his rich diplomatic career, from 1994 to 2000 he was Ambassador of the Republic of Macedonia to the Federal Republic of Germany, and from 1995 to 2000 he was appointed Ambassador to Switzerland and Liechtenstein. In 2000 he was Special Envoy of the Coordinator of the Stability Pact for Southeast Europe. The offices he held during his political career in the former SFR Yugoslavia include: Minister of Foreign Economic Relations in the Government of the Republic of Macedonia, Assistant Minister and Spokesperson in the Federal Ministry of Foreign Affairs of SFRY.  As an expert in international economic relations, professor at the International Economic Relations Department in Belgrade and visiting professor at the Universities of Hamburg and New York, Dr. Kerim has published nine books and over a hundred scientific articles relating to international politics, international economy and youth problems in Macedonia and a number of other countries, such as Germany, France, Greece, Austria, Serbia, Montenegro and Slovenia. He speaks English, German and French.