Nikola Selaković

Nikola Selaković (born 30 April 1983) is a Serbian politician serving as minister of culture since 2024. A member of the Serbian Progressive Party (SNS), he previously served as minister of justice from 2012 to 2016, minister of foreign affairs from 2020 to 2022 and as minister of labour, employment, veteran and social policy from 2022 to 2024.

Early life and education He was born in 1983 in Titovo Užice. Graduated from Belgrade's Sixth Gymnasium and the University of Belgrade Faculty of Law, where he is currently a research assistant in comparative legal tradition.

While he was an assistant at the Faculty of Law, Selaković took a bottle of water from a Croatian manufacturer from the student at the lecture and threw it in the garbage can, saying that he was doing it because it was not domestic water. Selaković said that he only wanted to point out to the students the necessity of buying domestic products.

During his studies, he won the oratory competition at the Faculty of Law three times. He was a member of the team at the international competition in the field of international public law "Philip C. Jessup International Law Moot Court Competition", and in 2007 he received the first prize of the Alan Watson Foundation for the project "Dušan's Code and Legal Transcripts".

He has been a member of the Serbian Progressive Party since 2008, a member of the party's executive board and president of the party's Legal Council.

He served as Minister of Justice and State Administration in the Government of Serbia and the cabinet of Ivica Dačić in the period from 2012 to 2014, and then as Minister of Justice in the period from 2014 to 2016 in the first cabinet of Aleksandar Vučić. He was Serbia's first Minister of Justice who visited Serbian detainees awaiting final ICTY verdicts. Selaković visited Ratko Mladić, Radovan Karadžić, Dragoljub Ojdanić, Zdravko Tolimir, Vinko Pandurević, Vlastimir Đorđević, Nikola Šainović, Sreten Lukić, Nebojša Pavković, Vladimir Lazarević and Momčilo Perišić.

By the decision of President of Serbia Aleksandar Vučić of 31 May 2017, he was appointed to the position of Secretary General of the President of the Republic, which he held until 27 October 2020.

In 2025, the Serbian prosecutor for organized crime charged Selaković with abuse of office and falsifying of documents to subject the General Staff Building in Belgrade to a redevelopment project linked to American businessman Jared Kushner.

Personal life He has a brother Velimir Selaković. He is married to Milica and is the father of three children.