Mayor

The Mayor has a Deputy who replaces him/her in case of an extended absence and/or due to any other reasons that prevent the Mayor to perform the duties. The Mayor appoints and dismisses the Deputy Mayor based on the approval of the City Assembly.

Aleksandar Šapić, Mayor of Belgrade
Vesna Vidović, Deputy Mayor of Belgrade

The Mayor is concurrently the Chairman of the City Council with the right to vote.

Assistants to the Mayor:

City headquarters for emergency situations in the territory of the city of Belgrade

, mayor of the city of Belgrade, commander

Deputy commanders:

Slobodan Šolević, member of the Belgrade City Council
Milan Vasović, Head of the Administration for Emergency Situations in Belgrade, Department for Emergency Situations, Ministry of Internal Affairs of the RS.

Dragoslava Jovanovica 2, office 8
Snezana Lazarevic, tel: 0113216405, 0113247424
Miljan Maljevic, tel: 0113216408

According to the Statute of the City of Belgrade (“Official Gazette of the City of Belgrade” No 39/08) Decisions on the amendment of the Statute of the City of Belgrade (“Official Gazette of the City of Belgrade” No 6/10 and 23/13) , Article 13 the City of Belgrade may cooperate with the units of local self-government of other states in the framework of foreign policy of the republic of Serbia by observing territorial integrity and legal order of the Republic of Serbia, in accordance with the Constitution and the law.

By the development of the existing and intensifying international cooperation the City of Belgrade significantly contributes to the further affirmation of both political and economic and cultural centre of this part of Europe. Contacts with prominent persons of international, political, cultural and public life are established as well as with the representatives of international sports associations. International cooperation also reflects on the positioning of the City of Belgrade on the map of the most attractive tourist destinations which is recognized in an increased number of visitors and nights spent in our city every year.

The analysis of the cooperation which the City of Belgrade achieved with foreign cities in the past period bring s to the conclusion about a wide spectrum of this cooperation and its diversified forms. Cooperation is developed through meetings of official delegations, exchange of expert and study groups, involvement in the work of international organizations of cities, through events in the field of economy and culture, exchange of publications and other information material etc.

The Assembly of the City of Belgrade with the agreement of the Government of the Republic of Serbia decides on the establishment of cooperation, i.e. on concluding agreements on cooperation with the units of the local self-government of other states. The cited acts signed with other local self-governments in the framework of international cooperation of the City of Belgrade are:

Vienna, Austria – Cooperation Agreement between the City of Vienna and the City of Belgrade, October 2019
Shanghai, PR China – Agreement between the City of Shanghai of the People’s Republic of China and the City of Belgrade of the
Republic of Serbia on the Establishment of Friendship City Relationship, May 2018
Sarajevo, BiH Memorandum of Understanding on Cooperation Between the City of Sarajevo and the City of Belgrade, November 2017
Rabat, Morocco – Partnership and Cooperation Agreement between City of Rabat, Kingdom of Morocco and City of Belgrade, Republic of Serbia, September 2017
Seoul, Republic of Korea Memorandum of Understanding on Friendly Exchanges and Cooperation Between Belgrade and Seoul, August 2017
Moscow, Russian Federation – Program of Cooperation between the City of Belgrade (Republic of Serbia) and the Moscow Government (Russian Federation) for the 2018-2020 Period, May 2017
Shanghai, PR China Memorandum of Understanding on Cooperation and Exchange between the City of Shanghai, the People's
Republic of China and the City of Belgrade, the Republic of Serbia (2017-2019), April 2017.
Hunan Province, PR China – Letter of Intent between Belgrade of the Republic of Serbia and Hunan Province of the People’s Republic of
China on the Establishment of Friendly City-Province Relationship, April 2017
Astana, Kazakhstan – Protocol on Intentions between the City of Belgrade and Akimata the city of Astana, November 2016.
Tehran, Iran – Memorandum of Understanding between the City of Belgrade and the City of Tehran, September 2016.
Bern, Switzerland – Cooperation and Friendship Agreement between the City of Belgrade and the City of Bern, February 2016.
Moscow, Russia – Protocol for organizing the Moscow Day in Belgrade in 2016 and organizing the Belgrade Day in Moscow in 2016, October 2016.
Programme of Cooperation between the City of Belgrade and the Government of Moscow for 2015-2017, June 2015.
Programme of Cooperation between the Assembly of the City of Belgrade and the Government of Moscow for 2003-2004, December 2002.
Minsk, Belarus Agreement on trade and economic, scientific and technological and cultural cooperation of the City of Belgrade and the City of Minsk, June 2014.
Skopje, Macedonia – Cooperation Agreement between the City of Belgrade and the City of Skopje, March 2002.
Letter of Intentions for establishing cooperation between the City of Belgrade and the City of Skopje, June 2000.
Podgorica, Montenegro – Protocol on Cooperation between the City of Belgrade and the City of Podgorica, July 2010.
Ljubljana, Slovenia – Agreement on Twinning the City Municipality of Ljubljana and the City of Belgrade, November 2010.
Corfu, Greece – Charter on Sister Cities, February 2010.
Protocol on Cooperation between the City of Belgrade and the Municipality of Corfu, September 2009.
Shenzhen, China – Memorandum of Understanding between the City of Belgrade and the City of Shenzhen, July 2005.
Chicago, USA – Charter on Sister Cities, June 2005.
Banja Luka, Republika Srpsk (Serb Republic), Cooperation Agreement between the City of Banja Luka and the City of Belgrade, April 2005.
Ljubljana, Slovenia and Zagreb Croatia – Letter of Intentions for strengthening cooperation between Belgrade, Ljubljana and Zagreb,October 2003.
Kiev, Ukraine – protocol on Cooperation between Belgrade and Kiev, May 2002.
Bucharest, Romania – Protocol on Cooperation between Belgrade and Bucharest, September 1999.
Tel Aviv-Yafo, Israel – Cooperation Agreement between the City of Belgrade and the City of Tel Aviv-Yafo, May 1990.
Algeria, Algeria – declaration on Mutual Interests of the City of Belgrade and the City of Algeria, February 1991.
Beijing, China – Cooperation Agreement between Beijing and Belgrade, October 1980.
Berlin, Germany – Cooperation and Friendship Agreement between the City of Berlin and the City of Belgrade, November 1978.
Rome, Italy – Friendship and Cooperation Agreement between Belgrade and Rome, October 1971.
Budapest, Hungary – Agreement on amicable cooperation between Budapest and Belgrade, December 1970.
Athens, Greece – Friendship and Cooperation Agreement between Belgrade and Athens, November 1966.
Coventry, UK – Charter on Sister Cities, September 1957.

Belgrade participates in the work of international organizations of cities EUROCITIES (www.eurocities.eu) and 100 resilient cities (www.100resilientcities.org).
It has been a member of the network of the largest European cities “EUROCITIES” since 2015 which celebrated the 30-year anniversary of its establishment. The aim of networking local self-governments from over 130 largest European cities and 40 partner cities , which together count 130 million citizens in 35 countries, is the exchange of ideas and knowledge.

Since 2014 Belgrade has been a member of “100 resilient cities” whose aim is to support cities throughout the world to build resilience to growing social, economic and physical challenges of the 21st century, exchange of best practices, and jointly solving issues to combat potential dangers – fires, floods and earthquake, but also everyday issues, such as constant water shortage, criminal, violence, economic inequality, underdeveloped public transport and other issues which cities face.

Belgrade was a host to the representatives of 12 cities of Central and South-East Europe in 2015. The Summit of capitals 2015 (capitalsummit.org) was an opportunity to strengthen regional cooperation and the cooperation of European capitals, promote economic exchange and investments and the promotion of best practices in the area of infrastructure and urban development as well as public and facility services. Large infrastructure projects were discussed and the improvement of the quality of life in capitals.
Traditionally, the City of Belgrade takes part in the organization of Belgrade Investment Days ( www.belgradeinvestmentdays.org.rs ), an event which bring together every year a large number of domestic and foreign investors.

Cooperation between Belgrade and Chicago

Cooperation between Belgrade and Corfu

Dragoslava Jovanovića 2, switchboard: 3229-678

, Head of Office

The Mayor's Office performs expert, operative, organisational, administrative and technical tasks on behalf of the Mayor, the Deputy Mayor and the City Council, relating to:

direct implementation and ensuring the implementation of the policy of the executive government of the City of Belgrade;
calling, preparing and holding meetings of the Mayor's team, the Mayor's committees and councils and other meetings of the Mayor, the Deputy Mayor and the City Council;
preparation of materials to be decided on by the Mayor;
preparation of work schedules for the Mayor, the Deputy Mayor and the City Council;
recording and tracking the implementation of adopted legislation;
protocol responsibilities of the Mayor, the Deputy Mayor, the City Council and the chairman and deputy chairman of the Assembly;
organisational, administrative, technical and protocol tasks for the City Manager and the Chief Architect;
public communication tasks for the Mayor and Deputy Mayor, relating to informing the public of the work of the Mayor and the Deputy
Mayor, internal communication, organising press conferences, coordinating communication between the City administration and the public;
international cooperation responsibilities, and other organisational, administrative and technical responsibilities.

International affairs, tel: 3247-424, tel/fax: 3344-675

Internal Audit Services City of Belgrade
Queen Marija Street 1/VI and 1/XII

Jadranka Danilović, Director, tel: 0117157522
Biljana Branković, Deputy Director, tel: 0117157522

Internal Audit Service of City of Belgrade performs activities stemming from its competence pursuant to the law governing the budget system, Rulebook on joint criteria for organization and standards and methodological instructions for the conduct and reporting of internal audit and with the International Internal Audit Standards.

Internal Audit Service of City of Belgrade consists of the following sectors\departments:

1. Sector for Internal Audit Services of direct and indirect users of budget funds of City of Belgrade
1.1 Department for Internal Audit Services of direct and indirect users of budget funds of City of Belgrade

2. Sector for Internal Audit Services of urban municipalities of City of Belgrade and users of public funds founded by urban municipalities
2.1 Department for Internal Audit Services of urban municipalities of City of Belgrade and users of public funds founded by urban municipalities

3. Sector for Internal Audit Services of public companies, public utility companies and corporations founded by City of Belgrade
3.1 Department for Internal Audit Services of public companies, public utility companies and corporations founded by City of Belgrade

4. Sector for Normative, Legal and Economic and Financial Affairs
4.1. Department for Normative, Legal and Analytical Affairs
4.2. Department for Economic and Financial Affairs

5. Sector for Quality Assessment of Internal Audit Activity
5.1. Department for Quality Assessment of Internal Audit Activity

Kraljice Marije 1/VII

Aleksandar Bekčić, Director, 7157-122

ALEKSANDAR ŠAPIĆ

He was born on June 1, 1978 in Belgrade.
He started playing water polo in 1984 in the "Crvena zvezda" water polo club, where he played for all the junior categories. He moved to VK "Partizan" in 1991, and in 1992, at the age of 14, he made his debut for the first team of Partizan. In 1993, he returned to VK "Crvena zvezda" but then continued his career in VK "Bečej" in 1994. In 2001, he went to Italy to join the "Camogli" water polo club, from which he transferred to the "Rari Nantes Savona" club after three seasons. In 2006, he went to the Russian VK "Sturm 2002", where he signed a contract that made him the highest paid water polo player in history. In 2009, he ended his professional water polo career.

Club career

His club career is remarkable, he has 21 trophies, nine national championships, six of which he won in the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia, two in Russia and one in Italy. He won national cups nine times: seven FRY cups and two Russian cups. He won the Champions League throne once, and two medals in the LEN Cup.
In the period from 1996 to 2009, he won 14 consecutive league top scorer titles, six times in FRY, five in Italy and three times in Russia.
During his club career, he scored 1,694 goals, of which the largest number, 924, was scored for clubs in the FRY. He hit the net 494 times in the Italian league, and 276 in Russia.

Club titles (21)

9 national championships 6 FRY, 2 Russia, 1 Italy
9 national cups 7 FRY, 2 Russia
2 LEN cups
1 Champions League
14 consecutive league top scorer titles 1996-2009
6 times FRY
5 times of Italy
3 times Russia

Number of goals scored

FRY (Crvena zvezda, Bečej) – 924
Italy (Camogli, Rari Nantes Savona) – 494
Russia (Sturm 2002) – 276

National team career

He was seventeen years old when he played for the national team of Yugoslavia for the first time in December 1995. From then until 2008, he played for our national team. At the very beginning of his national team career with the Yugoslav team, he won two European Junior Championships in 1995 in Esslingen and in 1996 in Istanbul. He was declared the best player and top scorer in both competitions
The first major competition in which he participated at the age of 18 for the Yugoslav national team was the Olympic Games in Atlanta in 1996. He is one of the few team athletes who participated in the Olympic Games four times, winning one silver and two bronze medals.
With the national team of Yugoslavia, Serbia and Montenegro, and later Serbia, he participated at 22 sports events, won 20 medals, five of which at the European Championships, four at the World Championships and three at the Olympic Games. He won the top medals at the World Cup twice, he won five medals at the World League competition and the gold medal at the Mediterranean Games held in 1997 in Bari.
For the national team, he scored 981 goals in 385 official matches. He was the top scorer in the World League competitions four times, while he also won this title twice at the World Cups.
During his national team career, he was selected for the ideal team eight times at the competitions in which he participated, three times at the European and World Championships and twice at the Olympic Games.
He is one of the most trophy-winning and successful athletes in the history of Serbian sports, who scored an incredible 2,675 goals in his entire career. He is the top scorer of all time in the former Yugoslavia.

World championships

1998 Bronze Championship top scorer Ideal WC team
2001 Silver Championship top scorer The ideal WC team
2003 Bronze Championship top scorer
2005 Gold The best player and championship top scorer The ideal WC team
2007 – 4th place

European Championships

1997 – Silver
2001 Gold Championship top scorer Ideal Team EC
2003 Gold Championship top scorer Ideal team EC
2006 Gold Championship top scorer Ideal team EC
2008 Silver Championship top scorer

World League

2004 Silver Top scorer
2005 Gold Top scorer
2006 Gold
2007 Gold Championship top scorer
2008 Gold Championship top scorer

World Cup

2002 Bronze Championship top scorer
2005 Gold Championship top scorer

Olympic Games

1996 – 8th place
2000 Bronze Championship top scorer The ideal team of the OG
2004 Silver Championship top scorer Ideal OG team
2008 – Bronze

Mediterranean Games

1997 Gold

Number of goals scored

National team (FRY, SCG, Serbia) – 981
Total career goals – 2675

The top scorer

2 times the top scorer of the Olympic Games OG
4 times the top scorer of the World Cup WC
4 times the top scorer of the European Championship EC
4 times the top scorer of the World League WL
2 times the top scorer of the World Cup WC

The ideal team

8 times selected in the ideal team (OG, WC, EC)

Work in sports organizations

In addition to his trophy-winning water polo career, he also contributed to Serbian sports through engagement in sports organizations. He was the president of the water polo club "Crvena zvezda" from 2003 to 2004.
After the end of his playing career in the Italian club "Rari Nantes Savona", he continued working there as sports manager for European competitions from 2006 to 2014.

Sports and social awards and prizes

Thanks to his exceptional sports career, he achieved numerous sports and social awards and, among others, he was declared the athlete of the year of the Autonomous Province of Vojvodina in 2000.
He had the honor of being twice awarded The Order of Nemanja, the first class for his contribution in representing the state and its citizens. He was awarded for the first time in 2001 and then in 2004.
He received the award for the best athlete in the selection of the Olympic Committee of Serbia and Montenegro in 2004, and a year later, in 2005, he was declared laureate of the October Award of the City of Belgrade.
For more than a decade he was considered one of the best players in the world, and in 2005 he was officially declared the best water polo player in the world.
He was awarded the May Award in 2008, the major sports and social prize that the Sports Federation of Serbia traditionally grants every year to athletes, sports federations and experts who imprinted on the history of Serbian sports with their results and thereby promote our country in the world.
In 2010, he was chosen as the third best athlete in the 21st century in the FINA selection.
In October 2016, he received a charter for his contribution to the development and work of the Sports Academy as an award for the most successful student since the establishment of this institution.
In July 2017, the World Federation of Sports and Culture, located in Minneapolis (Minnesota), declared him the best " center forward" water polo player of all time. In the voting process, he won 4,045 votes, which was another confirmation of his successful goal-scoring career.
He was awarded "The Best European" prize in the field of politics in 2020 by the First European House in Belgrade in December 2020.

Charity work

He is the founder of the Humanitarian Foundation “Budi human”(Be Humane), which was founded in 2014 and began operating in June. The foundation raises funds to help children, adults, institutions and associations from Serbia.
“Budi human” foundation grew very quickly after its establishment into one of the most credible humanitarian foundations in the region, which aims at providing the funds for the treatment and necessary therapies, primarily to children.
From its first day until now, the Humanitarian Foundation “Budi human”, has helped several thousand beneficiaries, most of them are children, and have raised tens of millions of euros.
In February 2016, he put all the medals he won in his playing career up at auction on the website of the Humanitarian Foundation “Budi human”, and all the money from the sold medals would be paid for the treatment and therapy of the foundation's beneficiaries.
He is the recipient of a large number of awards for socially useful and humanitarian work, with which many institutions in the country expressed their gratitude for everything he did in the field of humanitarian work as an active athlete, but also for the humanitarian work that he continued more intensively and responsibly after his sport career.

Out of sports career

He graduated in 2003, he earned master's degree in 2009 and doctorate in 2012 in the field of industrial management.
He was assistant to the mayor of the City of Belgrade from 2009 to 2012. He was elected as the president of the Municipality of New Belgrade in the 2012 elections and re-elected in the elections of 2016. He began his third term as the president of the Municipality of New Belgrade after the elections in 2020.
In 2013, he formed his association "For our city", with which he independently participated in the municipal elections in 2016 and won a convincing victory in New Belgrade. With his actions and results in politics, he became the pioneer of a different way of dealing with politics, focused on the field of social construction.
In the 2018 Belgrade elections, his association was the third, with just over 9% of the support of the citizens of Belgrade.
At the session of the Assembly of the Serbian Patriotic Union, held on July 21, 2018, Aleksandar Šapić was unanimously elected as the president of this newly formed political organization, which was supposed to act at the republican level in the future. The Serbian Patriotic Union became a parliamentary party for the first time after the elections in 2020.
After the unification of the Serbian Patriotic Union with the Serbian Progressive Party, on May 29, 2021, he was elected as vice president of the Main Board of the Serbian Progressive Party.
At the constituent session of the Assembly of the City of Belgrade, on June 20, 2022, he was elected as the mayor of Belgrade.

The family

He is married and the father of two children. He lives and works in Belgrade.

Foreign languages

He speaks Russian, Italian and English.