42 Facts About Zoran Jolevski

Zoran Jolevski is a Macedonian diplomat and the former Minister of Defense of the Republic of Macedonia.

Zoran Jolevski is married to Suzana Jolevska, and together they have two sons, Pero and Filip.

In 1990, Zoran Jolevski received a Master of Science in Law from the Faculty of Law Justinian I at Ss.

Zoran Jolevski speaks English, French, Serbo-Croatian, Bulgarian and his native language Macedonian.

From 1983 to 1988, Zoran Jolevski owned and operated a travel agency, where he served as a Freelance Tour Director.

Zoran Jolevski began his professional diplomatic career in 1988, joining the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Macedonia.

From 1988 to 1992, Zoran Jolevski served in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Macedonia as the responsible officer for preparing all necessary documents for observer status of Macedonia in the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade.

From 1992 to 1994, Zoran Jolevski was the Secretary to the Delegation of Macedonia to the International Conference on Succession of the Former Yugoslavia, where he played an important role in the negotiations.

In October 1994, Zoran Jolevski became the First Secretary at the Permanent Mission of Macedonia to the World Trade Organization and the United Nations office at Geneva, Switzerland.

Zoran Jolevski was there until 1998, and after that he returned at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

Zoran Jolevski prepared the Presidential Program, including writing speeches and serving in other capacities.

Zoran Jolevski was in this position from 1999 to 2004, and served as the Deputy negotiator and Chief Consultant to the Minister of Economy for accession to the WTO.

In 2000, Zoran Jolevski was the Chief negotiator in the successful negotiations on the reestablishment of diplomatic relations between Macedonia and the People's Republic of China.

Zoran Jolevski was a member of the Committee "E-Macedonia for All" under the auspices of Macedonia.

When Macedonia faced insurgency in 2001, and while Zoran Jolevski was Secretary General of the President, Macedonia faced a number of political challenges.

The Macedonian Government worked with the government of the United States and the EU on the Ohrid Framework Agreement, which brought peace in the Balkans; Zoran Jolevski was member of the negotiation team and he was the representative of President Trajkovski to the session of the Assembly of the Republic of Macedonia for the constitutional changes required by the Ohrid Framework Agreement.

Since 2005, Zoran Jolevski has served as the Vice Chairman of the Committee on Trade of the United Nations Economic Commission for Europe in Geneva.

From 2000 to 2001, Zoran Jolevski was member of the Management Board of "Skopje Fair", Skopje, Macedonia.

Zoran Jolevski was supposed to be on board of the airplane that carried President Boris Trajkovski, which crashed near Mostar on February 26,2004 and killed the President.

Zoran Jolevski was asked by Boris Trajkovski the night prior to the flight to stay in Skopje and work on accession of Macedonia into the NATO and the EU.

Zoran Jolevski became a Professor at the European University-Republic of Macedonia teaching International Economic Relations and Foreign Trade.

Zoran Jolevski was a Special Adviser to Antonio Milososki, the current Minister for Foreign Affairs of the Macedonia.

Zoran Jolevski was the consultant to the Government of the Republic of Macedonia for the preparation of the Answers to the Questionnaire for the preparation of the European Commission's Opinion on the application of the Macedonian for membership to the European Union and Consultant to the Government of Macedonia and the United Nations Development Program for preparation of the Report for UN Millennium Development Goals for goal No 8 Partnership for Development.

Besides domestic consulting services, Zoran Jolevski was a consultant to the Serbian government for their accession to WTO in 2006.

In 2005, he was hired as a consultant to the Prime Minister of Lebanon for the WTO accession; however, because of the assassination of Rafic Hariri, Zoran Jolevski never worked for the government of Lebanon.

Macedonian accession to NATO became a top issue of the Macedonian Government, which is why Zoran Jolevski was elected to be a member of the Presidency of Macedonian Euro-Atlantic Club in 2006; he is in this position today.

Zoran Jolevski became involved in several other institutions, such as becoming a member of the Board of the Center for Strategic Research at the Macedonian Academy of Sciences and Arts and becoming member of Lions Centar, Skopje, Macedonia.

In 2006, Zoran Jolevski was elected President of the Management Board of Tobacco Company "Prilep" in Prilep, Macedonia, which was on the edge of bankruptcy.

In 2006, Zoran Jolevski was member of the Management Board of Airports Macedonia.

Zoran Jolevski remained a member of Management Board of Airports Macedonia until 2009 when a Turkish private company bought the airports.

Zoran Jolevski was appointed Macedonian Ambassador to the United States in March 2007 after Ljupco Jordanovski was recalled by the Macedonian Government.

Zoran Jolevski presented his accreditation to President George W Bush on July 25,2007 with his family.

In 2008, Zoran Jolevski signed an agreement on Strategic Partnership and Cooperation with United States Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice.

Zoran Jolevski's other focuses were bringing American companies to invest in Macedonia and working with the Diaspora.

Zoran Jolevski's offices are based at the Moses House in Washington, DC.

In June 2014, following the 2014 Macedonian parliamentary election, Ambassador Zoran Jolevski was appointed Minister of Defense in the new government of Prime Minister Nikola Gruevski, ending his term as Macedonia's Ambassador to the United States.

On January 21,2011, Zoran Jolevski presented his credentials to President Felipe Calderon, becoming the first Macedonian Ambassador to Mexico, acting from his office in Washington, DC.

On June 7,2014, the Macedonian press announced that Ambassador Zoran Jolevski joined the government of Nikola Gruevski as the new Minister of Defense.

Zoran Jolevski has focused on increasing the country's cybersecurity capabilities, reforming the Military Academy, and creating joint partnerships with armed forces of NATO member countries.

Zoran Jolevski has participated in more than 100 international summits, forums and conferences, including the World Economic Forum in Davos in 2000,2001 and 2003, as well as the World Economic Forum in New York in 2002.

Zoran Jolevski represented Macedonia in the conference for the United Nations Convention against Transnational Organized Crime in 2000 in Palermo, Italy.

Zoran Jolevski published several articles on economy in newspapers such as Vecer and Utrinski.