Vuk Jeremić is the president of the Center for International Relations and Sustainable Development, a global public policy think tank, and the editor-in-chief of the quarterly magazine Horizons.

In 2016, he ran for election as the secretary-general of the UN. After six rounds of voting in the UN Security Council, he came in second place behind Antonio Guterres. In June 2012, Vuk was elected president of the 67th session of the UN General Assembly in the first contested vote since the end of the Cold War. He served as Serbia's minister of foreign affairs from 2007 to 2012.

In his various official capacities, Vuk visited more than 100 countries and lectured at major universities, think tanks, and institutes around the world. He has also published opinion pieces in leading outlets, including the New York Times, the Washington Post, the Wall Street Journal, the Financial Times, and Le Monde.

He holds a bachelor's degree in theoretical and experimental physics from Cambridge University and a master's degree in public administration and international development from Harvard University's John F. Kennedy School of Government. Vuk served as the president of the Serbian Tennis Federation from 2011 to 2015.