Nevena Ruzic is the Head of Compliance Department at the Republic of Serbia Office of the Commissioner for Information of Public Importance and Personal Data Protection. Her work is both in the field of freedom of information and personal data protection, namely it covers compliance of regulation with constitutional and international provisions and standards pertaining to these rights. Nevena is also responsible for cooperation with international and civil society organisations in Serbia as well as for international cooperation. Before working with the Commissioner (starting in 2009), Nevena was the Freedom of the Media Coordinator at the OSCE Mission to Serbia (from 2004) and legal consultant at a national NGO – YUCOM (from 2001). Her field of work has predominantly been in the field of information offline and online – freedom of expression and information, personal data, classified data, internet data and regulation. In 2012 she was elected a member of the Bureau to the Consultative Committee of the Council of Europe Convention 108, and since 2014 she is Vice-Chair thereof.
