Dragan Äilas
Dragan Djilas ( Serbian Cyrillic Драган Ђилас, born February 22, 1967 in Belgrade ) is a Serbian politician and businessman. He is a member of Demokratska Stranka (DS ) and the current mayor of Belgrade.
Life
He spent his childhood in the young district Novi Beograd, where he attended primary school and high school. At that time he still aspired to a career as a footballer, played football at a Belgrade suburb Club. Subsequently, he studied aerospace engineering at the Faculty of the University of Belgrade. The study he completed with success.
His professional career began initially in 1988 as a journalist with the Belgrade student radio index. 1989 Djilas was one of the founders of the radio station B92, where he worked as an editor of the current service. A little later he got himself as an entrepreneur in the media industry in the Czech Republic and founded the PR firm Multicom. This brought it into a market leader in the PR industry. 1998 emerged the company ovation from the Multicom. Brings you TV shows like Big Brother on the Serbian market. In 2001, Djilas founded the company Direct Media, which has become the leader in the field of media advertising in Southeast Europe. In between Dragan Djilas was a director also at various advertising agencies.
The public was Dragan Djilas first time on intently as he said frankly, as a young student leader of the 1990s, Slobodan Milošević in the face, he should resign as president and make democracy the way. At the time he was 24, student representatives and leaders of the protests against the regime of Slobodan Milošević. In 2000, Djilas played a leading role in the election campaign of democratic forces to overthrow the old regime.
Political career
Since 2004 belongs to Dragan Djilas of the Democratic Party (DS). From 2004 to 2007 he was a close associate of Serbian President Boris Tadić. He led a kind of ombudsman office for citizen questions the president. Dragan Djilas in 2006 was elected to the capital - leader of the DS. In May 2007, Djilas Serbian Investment Minister. In the race for the new mayor of Belgrade, he was able to prevail within the party against the incumbent Director of Construction, Boris Ranković and was eventually selected as the top candidate of the Social Democrats as the new City Hall chief of the Serbian capital.
Public offices
Since 2011, Dragan Djilas is president of the Serbian Basketball Federation.
Private life
Djilas has been divorced since 2008. His wife was Milica Delević who was also politically active. From autumn 2003 to mid-August 2004, she headed the Office for Cooperation with the European Union of Serbia and Montenegro. Then she was 2007-2008 Serbian Deputy Foreign Minister. As of November 2008, she leads the Office for European Integration within the Serbian government.
They have two daughters, Sofia and Jovana.