Ljiljana Čolić

Ljiljana Colic (born 1956) is currently Serbian Minister of Education and Sport. She was born in Zemun, Belgrade, and holds a Ph.D. in philology. Colic works as an associate professor at the Faculty of Philology, University of Belgrade. In Pristina she used to work as guest professor at the Faculty of Philosophy. Colic is one of the founders of the Democratic Party of Serbia. She speaks English, French, Turkish and Arabic fluently.

She made an appearance in international mass media spotlight in September 2004, when it became known that she has made Serbian schools suspend the teaching of evolution, only allowing schools to reintroduce it if they also started teaching creationism. [1] After she had to answer to the Serbian Prime Minister of Serbia Vojislav Kostunica, the decision was however later reversed. [2]