Prime Minister Vladimir Putin meets with Serbian President Boris Tadić in Belgrade
Boris Tadic was born into a family of scientists in Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina on Jan. 15, 1958. He is an ethnic Serb.
Tadic attended secondary school and high school in Belgrade. He graduated from the University of Belgrade's Faculty of Philosophy with a degree in Clinical Psychology. During his student days, Tadic was an active member of an opposition youth movement and worked as a journalist, contributing to several opposition publications and broadcasting stations.
Tadic began his career as a psychologist at a Belgrade hospital. Later, he worked as a teacher and a scientific research officer at the Academic Institute of Psychology.
In 1997, he founded and directed the Centre for the Development of Democracy and Political Skills.
In 1990, Tadic became a member of the Democratic Party.
In 1992, he became the secretary of the Democratic Party's Central Committee and joined the party's Executive Committee.
In 1994, he won a deputy mandate from the Democratic Party in the National Assembly of the Republic of Serbia.
After serving as the Democratic Party's deputy leader from February 2000, Tadic was elected as the head of the Democratic Party in February 2004.
He served as the telecommunications minister in the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia's first democratic government from early 2000 to June 2001.
In 2001, Tadic became a deputy of the Union Federal Assembly's Citizen's Assembly (the lower house) and a deputy chairman of the assembly. At the same time, he led the Parliamentary Security Committee. In addition, he served as the head of the Democratic Opposition coalition in Serbia and Montenegro's parliament.
Tadic served as Serbia and Montenegro's defence minister from March 17, 2003 to April 15, 2004.
He was elected president of the Republic of Serbia twice on June 27, 2004 and Feb. 15, 2008.
Tadic speaks English and French.
He is married, with two daughters.
