State Secretary

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Maja Mačužić Puzić

State Secretary
Maja Mačužić Puzić

State Secretary

 

Maja Mačužić Puzić was born in Kraljevo, where she completed her primary and secondary education. She completed undergraduate studies at the Faculty of Economics in Kragujevac and graduated from the Faculty of Economics and Engineering Management in Novi Sad.

She acquired years of experience working for the OSCE Mission to Serbia in Belgrade on positions that included oversight of the conduct of elections, provision of assistance to refugees and IDPs and integration of refugees and IDPs. She continued her career at the company Trgomen – PV d.o.o. Kraljevo, before moving on to the Public Utility Company “Čistoća” Kraljevo, where she worked as head of the collection department, head of the sales department and public procurement officer.

In 2013, she took a position at the company “Elektrosrbija” d.o.o. Kraljevo as an expert associate for planning and analysis and public procurement officer at the branch office “Elektrodistribucija Kraljevo”, followed by a stint at the Public Enterprise Electric Power Industry of Serbia, Belgrade, as an expert business associate for public procurement.

In 2012, she briefly served as a councilor of the City Assembly of Kraljevo, elected on the electoral list Let’s Get Kraljevo Moving -Tomislav Nikolić -SNS, NS, PSS, USS, from which position she was elected in August the same year to serve as a member of the City Council of Kraljevo, responsible for public procurements, project management and regional and international cooperation; she remained on the same position during the next term of office of the City Council of Kraljevo.

At the snap general election in April 2016, she was elected Member of Parliament, and at the regular general election in June 2020 her term of office was renewed. She was elected on the electoral list “Aleksandar Vučić -for our children”. She has been a member of the Serbian Progressive Party since its formation and has served as Vice President of the party’s city committee in Kraljevo since 2011.

She took part in several national and international congresses, study visits and workshops on gender equality and experience in the work of public administration and local self-government. She speaks basic conversational English.

Ms. Mačužić Puzić was appointed State Secretary at the Ministry of Public Administration and Local Self-Government of the Republic of Serbia in 2021.

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