Verica Barać,
President of the Council

Born in 1955 in Cacak.
Graduated from the Faculty of Law in Belgrade.

She worked as a lawyer in the economy sector, and participated in the supervision and elaboration of by-laws for the local self management. Public Attorney of the Municipality of Cacak between 1997 and 2001. She was one of the leaders of the Civil Parliament of Cacak during the NATO bombing in 1999, and later one of the founders of the Civil Parliament of Serbia and its President since the foundation till May 2003 when she was appointed President of the Anti-Corruption Council of Serbia.

She has prepared the Civil Parliament’s book “The direction of changes” (Belgrade, 2000), as well as two publications of the reports and initiatives by the Anti-Corruption Council, “Corruption, power and state - starting point and the results by the Anti-Corruption Council (2001-2004)”, ( Res publica, Belgrade, 2004), and “Corruption, power, state - second part” (Res publica, Belgrade, 2005).