Ivana Jelić
Born on 17 March 1975 in Podgorica, Montenegro
- Law degree, Faculty of Law, University of Montenegro, 1998
- Legal Officer in charge of dissemination of IHL at the International Committee of the Red Cross Geneva, sub-Delegation in Montenegro, 1999-2001
- Teaching Assistant at the Faculty of Law, University of Montenegro, 2001-2007
- Visiting Scholar at the Faculty of Law, University of Bergen, Norway, 2002
- Master degree in Law (LL.M), Public International Law and International Human Rights Law, Faculty of Law, University of Belgrade, Serbia, 2004
- Doctoral Scholar of the JFDP academic mobility program, Boalt Law School, University of California in Berkeley, USA, 2004-2005
- Visiting Scholar at the Centre for the study of human rights, Columbia University, New York, USA, 2005
- Doctor of Law (PhD), Public International Law, Faculty of Law, University of Belgrade, Serbia, 2007
- Visiting Postdoctoral Researcher at université Panthéon-Assas Paris II, Centre de Recherche sur les Droits de l'Homme et le Droit Humanitaire, 2007
- Member of the Committee of experts of the Council of Europe for the Improvement of Procedures for the Protection of Human Rights (DH-PR), Strasbourg, 2008-2010
- Member of the Steering Committee for Human Rights (CDDH), Council of Europe, Strasbourg, 2008-2012
- Assistant Professor at the Faculty of Law and Faculty of Political Sciences, University of Montenegro, 2008-2013
- Vice-President (2008-2018) and Senate Member (since 2018) of the Montenegrin Association of Lawyers
- Member of the ad hoc Working Group of CDDH on drafting the agreement on accession of the EU to the ECHR, Council of Europe, Strasbourg, 2010-2011
- Visiting professor at International interdisciplinary postgraduate program European Regional Master in Human Rights and Democracy (ERMA), University of Bologna and University of Sarajevo, 2010-2017
- Member (2012-2016), Gender Equality Rapporteur (2013-2016) and Second Vice Chair (2014-2016) of the Advisory Committee on the Framework Convention for the Protection of National Minorities (ACFC), Council of Europe, Strasbourg
- Associate Professor at the Faculty of Law and at the Faculty of Political Sciences, University of Montenegro, 2013- (on leave)
- Vice Dean in charge of international cooperation and academic mobility program of the Faculty of Law, University of Montenegro, in two mandates (2011-2012) and (2015-2016)
- Academic Member of the Court of Honor of the University of Montenegro, 2011-2015
- Visiting Postdoctoral Researcher at the Faculty of Law, Freie Universität Berlin, Germany, 2013-2014
- Visiting Scholar, Faculté de Droit et Science Politique, université Nice Sophia Antipolis, France, 2015
- Member of the Committee of Legal Sciences of Montenegrin Academy of Sciences and Arts (elected in 2015)
- Member (2015-2018), Vice-President (2017-2018) of the United Nations Human Rights Committee, Geneva, Switzerland
- Distinguished Visiting Professor - Mercator Fellow at the Faculty of Law, Freie Universität Berlin, Germany, 2016-2017
- Judge of the European Court of Human Rights since 12 July 2018
- President of Section since 2 July 2024.