Nevena Ruzic

Nevena Ruzic

Head of Compliance Department, Office of Commissioner for Information of Public Importance and Personal Data Protection, Republic of Serbia

Biography

Nevena Ruzic is the Head of Compliance Department at the Office of Commissioner for Information of Public Importance and Personal Data Protection Republic of Serbia.

Her work is both in the field of freedom of information and personal data protection, namely it covers compliance of regulation with constitutional and international provisions and standards pertaining to these rights.

Since 2012 Nevena is elected a member of the Bureau to the Consultative Committee of the Council of Europe Convention 108.

Her field of work has predominantly been in the field of information offline and online – freedom of expression and information, personal data, classified data, internet data and regulation.

Nevena is a lawyer by profession and holds two masters - in contemporary diplomacy from the University of Malta and in law from the University of Leeds.

Before working with the Commissioner (since 2009), she was the Freedom of the Media Coordinator at the OSCE Mission to Serbia (from 2004) and legal consultant at a national NGO (from 2001).