Nevena Ružić is an independent consultant in the field of information offline and online – privacy and personal data, freedom of expression and information, classified data, internet law and regulation. Nevena used to work at the Open Society Foundation Serbia as a coordinator of programs related to digital rights, media and information society (2020-2022). She was a head of a department at the Commissioner for Information of Public Importance and Personal Data Protection Republic of Serbia (2009-2020). Prior to this, she was the Freedom of the Media Coordinator at the OSCE Mission to Serbia (from 2004) and a legal consultant at a national NGO – YUCOM (from 2001).
She has authored and coauthored several documents as well as articles on, amongst other topics, personal data. Nevena is a co-creator of series of educational videos available in Serbian only called “Soljica privatnosti sa Jelenom i Nevenom” (trans. “Cup of Privacy with Jelena and Nevena”).
In 2019, she was a candidate for Information Commissioner supported by more than 100 civil society organisations. Nevena Ruzic is a lawyer by profession and holds two masters - in contemporary diplomacy from the University of Malta and in law from the University of Leeds, UK (as a Chevening scholar). She graduated from the School of Law University of Belgrade, Serbia