Djordje Alempijevic

AFFILIATIONS: 

School of Medicine University of Belgrade, Belgrade, Serbia Faculty of Forensic and Legal Medicine, Royal College of Physicians of London, London, United Kingdom Independent Forensic Expert Group 

SHORT CV: 

Dr. Djordje Alempijevic, MD, PhD, graduated and specialized in forensic medicine at the Faculty of Medicine, University of Belgrade (FMUB). He has also received the Diploma in Forensic Medicine at Monash University, Australia. Since 1993, he has been employed by the FMUB, and in 2018 got appointment as full professor. He has a strong professional interest in human rights and fundamental freedoms, in addition of promoting the role of forensic medicine in investigations of interpersonal violence. As an experienced forensic pathologist, he has participated in activities related to people unaccounted for during the armed conflicts in the Former Yugoslavia, participited in the ICRC project “The Missing”, and completed a mission to Georgia in relation to the armed conflict in Abhasia. He is a member of Steering Committee of the Independent Forensic Expert Group (IFEG), and he has conducted trainings on Istanbul Protocol in Finland, Serbia, Georgia, Kazakhstan and Sweden, in addition to completing missions to the Russian Federation and Uganda to collect forensic evidence on torture. Since 2004, the International Organisation for Migration (IOM) has involved him in trainings (Serbia, Croatia, BiH and the Belarus Republic). Since 2011 he has visiting places of detention as expert of National Preventive Mechanism (NPM). In 2011 he became the member of European Committee for the Prevention of Torture (CPT), currently serving the 3rd term with the Committee; in that capacity he took part in visits to Armenia, Azerbaijan, Bulgaria, Georgia, Germany, Greece, Republic of Moldava, Russian Federation, Slovak Republic, Turkey and Ukraine. Dr. Alempijevic has given presentations on torture prevention and monitoring places of detention both nationally and internationally (Finland, Russian Federation, Montenegro and Spain). He is a Foundation Member of the Faculty of Forensic and Legal Medicine at the Royal College of Medicine, London, UK. His memberships include the Steering Committee of the Victimology Society of Serbia, the Serbian Physicians’ Society, the International Academy of Legal Medicine, and the American Academy of Forensic Sciences.