Stojan Radenović

Stojan Radenović
Стојан Раденовић
President of the National Assembly of Serbia (acting)
In office
6 February 2024 – 20 March 2024
Preceded byVladimir Orlić
Succeeded byAna Brnabić
Member of the National Assembly of the Republic of Serbia
Assumed office
1 August 2022
Personal details
Born (1948-03-09) 9 March 1948 (age 76)
Dobra Voda, PR Serbia, FPR Yugoslavia
Political partyIndependent

Stojan Radenović (Serbian Cyrillic: Стојан Раденовић; born 9 March 1948) is a Serbian academic and politician. An internationally respected mathematician, he has served in Serbia's national assembly since 2022 as an independent delegate endorsed by the Serbian Progressive Party (SNS). He was acting president of the assembly from February to March 2024.

Early life and academic career

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Radenović was born in the village of Dobra Voda in the municipality of Bojnik, in what was then the People's Republic of Serbia in the Federal People's Republic of Yugoslavia. He received a Ph.D. in 1979 and taught for the next two decades at the University of Kragujevac Faculty of Natural Sciences and Mathematics. From 2000 to 2013, he was a full professor at the University of Belgrade Faculty of Mechanical Engineering.

In 2016, Radenović was personally responsible for the University of Belgrade ranking in the world's top three hundred universities for the first time on the prestigious Shanghai list, due to his large number of published works and citations. This accomplishment brought him to the attention of the wider public.[1][2]

Politician

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In the 2022 Serbian parliamentary election, the Serbian Progressive Party reserved the lead positions on its Together We Can Do Everything electoral list for non-party cultural figures and academics.[3] Radenović was given the second position on the list; this was tantamount to election, and he was indeed elected when the list won a plurality victory with 120 out of 250 mandates.[4] During the campaign, he credited the SNS with improving conditions in Serbia over its decade in power.[5] In his first term, Radenović was a member of the education committee[a] and the subcommittee on science and higher education.[6][7]

He was given the ninth position on the SNS's list in the 2023 parliamentary election and was re-elected when the list won a majority victory with 129 seats.[8] As the oldest member of the new parliament, Radenović was chosen as interim president when the assembly convened in February 2024.[9] He served in this role until 20 March, when Ana Brnabić was elected to the position.[10]

He is now once again a member of the assembly's education committee.[11]

Notes

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  1. ^ Formally known as the Committee on Education, Science, Technological Development, and the Information Society.

References

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  1. ^ Slobodan Bubnjević, "Za istraživanje granice ne postoje", Vreme, 1 September 2016, accessed 17 April 2022.
  2. ^ Vesna Andrić, "Stojan Radenović: Skromni matematičar", Danas, 24 August 2019, accessed 17 April 2022.
  3. ^ "OVAKO VUČIĆ KROJI VRH IZBORNE LISTE SNS", Blic, 14 February 2022, accessed 17 April 2022.
  4. ^ "Ko su kandidati SNS za narodne poslanike?", Danas, 17 February 2022, accessed 17 April 2022.
  5. ^ "Profesor Radenović: Ponosan sam što sam na listi SNS, postao sam deo istorije", Danas, 19 February 2022, accessed 17 April 2022.
  6. ^ STOJAN RADENOVIC, Archived 2022-10-06 at the Wayback Machine, National Assembly of the Republic of Serbia, 6 October 2022, accessed 3 April 2024.
  7. ^ Subcommittees, Archived 2023-05-23 at the Wayback Machine, National Assembly of the Republic of Serbia, 23 May 2023, accessed 3 April 2024.
  8. ^ "Pogledajte ko su kandidati na Vučićevoj listi Srbija ne sme da stane", Danas, 3 November 2023, accessed 29 March 2024.
  9. ^ "Šta je rekao Stojan Radenović u intervjuu na koji je reagovao Vladimir Obradović?", Danas, 12 February 2024, accessed 3 April 2024.
  10. ^ "Ana Brnabić izabrana za predsednicu Narodne skupštine", Politika, 20 March 2024, accessed 3 April 2024.
  11. ^ STOJAN RADENOVIC, National Assembly of the Republic of Serbia, accessed 3 April 2024.