Born on 16th December 1961, the new Ambassador of North Macedonia to Serbia is a Full Professor of Criminal Law and former Minister of Justice of North Macedonian (2022-’23). He earned his Bachelor of Laws degree in 1986 and his Master of Laws degree in 1995, both from the Iustinianus Primus Faculty of Law at Ss.
Cyril and Methodius University in Skopje, after which he acquired his Ph.D. from Russia’s Lomonosov Moscow State University Faculty of Law. He served from 2001-’06 as a representative of the then Republic of Macedonia in GRECO – Group of states against corruption, Council of Europe, based in Strasbourg, and in 2010 became a member of the team responsible for harmonising his country’s legal system with EU Law, while he has worked on numerous other legal reform projects as a legal consultant and key expert.
In addition to lecturing in Skopje as a full-time professor since 2012, he has also served as a legal consultant to the Ministry of Justice and was engaged by UNOPS as a capacity building specialist (international cooperation in criminal matters) in 2022. Ambassador Tupančeski is a member of multiple professional bodies and the author of numerous publications. Apart from his native Macedonian and Serbo-Croatian, he speaks English and Russian fluently and has a basic understanding of Albanian.
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