Goran Živkov (born 1971 in Kikinda

Kikinda

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, Serbia, Yugoslavia

Yugoslavia

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) was appointed on June 20, 2006 as the Minister of Agriculture, Forestry and Water Management in the Government

Government of Serbia

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 of Serbia

Serbia

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 and resigned on October 1 same year. He graduated from the Faculty of Agriculture in 1996.

Before becoming the Minister he worked as the advisor in Federal Ministry of Agriculture, then he became head of the Unit for Genetic Resources and GMO. He worked as national consultant at the office of the Food and Agriculture Organisation. He was appointed assistant minister of agriculture in June 2004.

He replaced Ivana Dulić-Marković

Ivana Dulic-Markovic

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at the position, after she was elected for the Deputy Prime Minister in June 2006.

External Reference

• Presentation at the Novi Sad Fair May, 2005, entitled, Rural finance—Development of rural finance in Serbia http://www.minpolj.gov.rs/postavljen/56/ZivkovGoranminpolj.pdf