Curriculum Vitae of the Representative of Montenegro before the European Court of Human Rights

Valentina Pavličić was born on April 1, 1968 in Podgorica. She graduated from the Faculty of Law in Podgorica, University of Montenegro in 1990, where she received numerous student awards due to her outstanding academic achievement and was the president of the Students’ Association of the Faculty of Law in Podgorica. She passed the state judicial exam before the Commission of the Ministry of Justice of the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia in Belgrade in February, 1997. She had an extensive work experience as a judge in criminal matters in the Montenegrin judiciary, where she adjudicated in the most complex cases of procedural and substantive character.

Work experience:

- Ms. Valentina Pavličić has been acting in the capacity of the Representative of Montenegro before the European Court of Human Rights since September 2015;

- the President of the Criminal Department of the High Court in Podgorica, 2013 - 2015 ;

- the judge in the Specialized Department for Organized Crime, Corruption, Terrorism and War Crimes in the High Court in Podgorica, 2008 - 2015.

Additional professional activities and engagements:

- the member of the newly formed group of the Council of Europe (The Drafting Group on Human Rights in situations of crisis (CDDH-SCR), which group was created in response to the pandemic, but its mandate relates to situations of crises in general since 2021;

-  the member of the CDDH ad hoc negotiation Group on the Accession of the European Union to the European Convention for the Protection of Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms („46+1“) since 2019;

- the lecturer, expert and consultant within the joint project of the Council of Europe and the European Union – „Horizontal Facility “Programme for the Western Balkans and Turkey“ since 2017;

- the member of Drafting Group on freedom of expression and links to other human rights of the Steering Committee for Human Rights (CDDH-EXP), in Strasbourg, France, 2016 - 2019 ;

-  the lecturer at legal academies and seminars on the rule of law since 2016 ;

-  the member of the Steering Committee for Human Rights (CDDH) in Strasbourg, France since 2015 ;

- the member of the Committee of Experts on the system of the European Convention on Human Rights (DH-SYSC) in Strasbourg, France since 20015;

- the lecturer in a variety of initial and continuous training programmes within the Training Center in the Judiciary and State Prosecutor's Office of Montenegro since 2014;

-  the expert of the European Commission for the Efficiency of Justice (CEPEJ), 2014 ;

- the expert of the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE) in the area of trafficking in human beings and cross-border criminal, 2012.

Ms Pavličić attended a broad range of trainings, seminars and round tables at national and international level, among which the most significant ones are IVLP (International Leadership Program) entitled Organized crime and corruption in the world, conducted by the State Department and the US Embassy in Podgorica in Washington, Dallas, Training on the Fight against corruption in the area of public procurement, organized by CEELI Institute Prague and the training on Access to Justice-Matra patrol organized by T.M.C. Asser Institut Den Haag in Haag, Netherlands.

She is the author of a wide variety of publications, primarily intended for competent and academic community, namely, law practitioners, for the purpose of promoting and sharing knowledge on the application of the case-law of the European Court of Human Rights and the Convention related standards, as well as the lecturer at numerous seminars and conferences at national and international level.

Ms. Pavlićić speaks English and Italian fluently.