Secretary General of the Center for Democracy Foundation (Serbia).
Founder of the Center for Democracy Foundation.
President of the European Association for Local Democracy ALDA (France).
Natasa Vuckovic has a large experience in both governmental and non-governmental field. As a Member of Parliament from 2007 to 2020 (Democratic Party), she was chairing the Committee on European Integration and served in the Committee on Foreign Affairs, Committee on Judiciary and Public Administration, Committee on Administrative Affairs. Being a member of the Serbian Standing Delegation in the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) for thirteen years, where she served as Vice President of the Assembly, as well as Chair of the Committee on Rules and Internal Procedures, and as Vice Chair of the Committee on Election of Judges to the European Court of Human Rights. She was PACE Rapporteur for Turkey.
Active in Serbian civil society, as a co-founder and Secretary General of the Center for Democracy Foundation, she has managed its work since 1994, by designing, coordinating its projects, fundraising and developing of the Foundation`s programmatic portfolio. Vuckovic is member of the Programmatic Council of the National Convention on the EU which is the largest CSO network in Serbia. She is also coordinator of NCEU working group for accession negotiations chapter 19 – Social policy and Employment and of the working group on Berlin Process and regional cooperation.
In 2023, by the Serbian civil society organizations, she was elected member of the newly established Council for Civil Society in Serbia and also a member of the EU Serbia Joint Consultative Committee (JCC) and of the Enlargement Country Members (ECM) initiative of the European Economic and Social Committee.
In May 2024, at the General Assembly of the European Association for Local Democracy (ALDA) in Barcelona, Vuckovic was elected President of ALDA (France).
She has published articles and analysis and has lectured and hold trainings at various institutions and organizations, including Regional School for Public Administration (ReSPA), particularly in the field of EU integration of the Western Balkans, rule of law, human rights, as well as in the non-profit management. Since 2024 she is columnist at the Serbian weekly Novi magazine.
She is awarded with the French medal National Order of Merit (Ordre National du Mérite) in the class of Knight (2014) as well as with the Assembly Medal by the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe which also and received the title of the Honorary Associate of the Assembly (2017).
