Saša Dragin

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Saša Dragin (Serbian: Саша Драгин) is the current Minister of Environmental Protection in Government of Serbia.

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He was born in Sombor in 1972. He graduated in 1999 from the Faculty of Agriculture, University of Novi Sad and received an MSc in 2003, followed by a PhD in 2007. He worked in Illinois, US, in laboratories for domestic animal molecular genetics and at the Animal Production Research Institute in Nitra, the Slovak Republic, where he was working on his doctoral dissertation. From 2005 he was Vojvodina Under-Secretary of Agriculture, Water Management and Forestry. He is a founder of the International Organisation of Agriculture Students and a founder and President of the Novi Sad Youth Chamber. He is President of ICPDR (Internacional Commision for Danube Protection). He is married and speaks English, Slovak and German.