Gordana Mohorović was born in 1963. Graduated from the Faculty of Law in Belgrade. Passed the bar exam in 1990. She completed her postgraduate studies (MSc in Development Studies) at the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE) in the UK, London, in 1996.
From 1997 to 2003, she worked in the Federal Ministry of Justice of the FRY, monitoring the implementation of basic international human rights treaties: the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (ICCPR), the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights (ICESCR) and the Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC); She was the Secretary of the Commission for Harmonization of the Legal System of the FRY with EU, CoE and WTO Regulations; the national contact person for the comparative review of the compliance of domestic regulations with the European Convention for the Protection of Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms; the national contact person for the Council of Europe Convention for the Protection of Individuals with Regard to Automatic Processing of Personal Data - Convention 108 (ETC108) and a member of the Council of Europe Project Group on Personal Data Protection (CJ-PD); she also coordinated activities between the Federal Ministry of Justice and the Council of Europe regarding the training of judges on the European Convention for the Protection of Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms; performed a comparative analysis of regulations in the field of protection and promotion of human rights; participated in the drafting of laws and gave opinions on draft laws from the aspect of human rights protection.
From 2003 to 2019, she worked in the Ministry of Human and Minority Rights and all organizational forms that followed, including the RS Government Office for Human and Minority Rights. She managed the work of the Department of Human Rights. Monitored the implementation of basic international human rights treaties: ICCPR, ICESCR, CERD, CEDAW, CAT, CRC, CRPD, and CED; participated in the preparation of state reports and was a member of state delegations in the presentation of state reports before the competent UN treaty bodies; prepared state reports and the presentation of the state delegation and participated as its member in the cycles of the Universal Periodic Review before the UN Human Rights Council; prepared reports on UN special procedures in the field of civil, political, economic, social and cultural rights; prepared/handled responses to individual citizens' complaints to relevant UN treaty bodies; was a member of the Committee of experts for the development of human rights (DH DEV); performed competent activities within the framework of European integration in connection with Chapters 19 and 23 and was the contact person for the Monitoring Mechanism for the implementation of the Action Plan for Chapter 23.
Participated in numerous trainings including UniDem seminars of the Council of Europe on Human Rights, Trieste, Italy 2000 and 2006; Workshops of the Office of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights on the Universal Periodic Review, Geneva, Switzerland in 2008 and Brussels, Belgium in 2011; Expert training "Gender Equality and Local Self-Government" organized by Golda Meir Mount Carmel of the International Training Center (MCTC), the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Israel, the Israeli Agency for International Development Cooperation (MASHAV) and UN-HABITAT Haifa, Israel in 2010; Professional Development Program for Accession to the European Union, Ministry of Justice and Equality of the Republic of Ireland, Dublin, Ireland 2011.
In 2016/2017, for one year she was on temporary replacement transfer in the Ministry of Interior - Sector for International Cooperation, European Affairs, and Planning.
In 2019 she was appointed to the position of Assistant Secretary-General in the Commissioner for Information of Public Importance and Personal Data Protection.
She is married and fluent in English and Italian language.
