The Public Prosecutor of the Republic of North Macedonia, Nenad Saveski, was born on July 22, 1976.
He graduated from the Faculty of Law at the University “Sts. Cyril and Methodius” – Skopje in 2000, and passed the bar exam in 2003. He holds a Master of Laws in the field of criminal law from postgraduate studies at the Faculty of Law “Justinianus Primus”.
In 2007-2008, Saveski was a student of the first generation of the Academy for Judges and Public Prosecutors, after which in 2009 he was elected as a public prosecutor at the Basic Public Prosecutor’s Office in Skopje.
For a certain period, he was also assigned to work at the Basic Public Prosecutor’s Office in Gostivar, and in September 2016 he was elected as a judge at the Basic Criminal Court in Skopje in the Department for Organized Crime and Corruption. Since 2014, he has been a lecturer at the Academy of Judges and Public Prosecutors for the initial and continuous training of future and current judges and public prosecutors.
In his rich professional experience, Saveski has been engaged as an expert member and consultant to many working groups for the preparation and analysis of laws and other acts, and his domestic and international expert engagements are in cooperation with the OSCE, DCAF, USAID, the Council of Europe JUFREX, the ILEA Academy in Budapest, the US Embassy, as well as the Justinian I Faculty of Law.
In 2024, he was engaged as an expert in the working group for judicial reforms in Moldova for the preparation of a Manual for the use of special investigative measures within the framework of the project “Strengthening the Management of the Security Sector in Moldova”.
He is the author and co-author of several publications, including the “Guide to Destruction of Data Collected with PIM” DCAF 2024 and the “Guide to Remote Trial for Central and Eastern European Countries CEELI Institut 2022 Second Edition”, and in his career he has also published professional papers on the topics: “Special Investigative Measures versus the Right to Privacy – Case Law and International Standards”, “Measures for Securing Persons in the Criminal Procedure Code that Restrict the Right to Liberty and Security in Accordance with Article 5 of the ECHR”, “Hate Crimes and Hate Speech”, “Confiscation – Extended Confiscation” and others.
Public Prosecutor Saveski has attended training courses at the MATRA program in the Netherlands, the CEELI Institute in Prague and the ARE Center.
He speaks English, German, Serbo-Croatian and Albanian as foreign languages.
Nenad Saveski was elected Public Prosecutor of the Republic of North Macedonia on March 18, 2026.
The Public Prosecutor of the Republic of North Macedonia is an official appointed by the Assembly of the Republic of North Macedonia, upon a proposal of the Government of the Republic of North Macedonia, for a term of six years with a right to be reappointed. He/she is accountable for his/her work and the work of his/her public prosecutor’s office to the Assembly of the Republic of North Macedonia.
The conditions to be fulfilled by anyone willing to become Public Prosecutor of the Republic of North Macedonia are: to be an able-bodied citizen of the Republic of North Macedonia with good general health condition, to be proficient in the Macedonian language, to have obtained a Bachelor’s Degree and to have passed the Bar Exam in the Republic of North Macedonia, as well as to have work experience of at least eight years after passing the bar exam, with proven law related results, or to be a full-time / part-time university professor who has been teaching law related subject from the judicial practice for more than ten years.
The Public Prosecutor of the Republic of North Macedonia represents the Public Prosecutor’s Office, manages its work and exercises the rights and obligations provided by law. He/she is responsible for the general state of affairs regarding the organization and execution of the functions of the Public Prosecutor’s Office, issues general obligatory instructions in writing to higher public prosecutors, the basic public prosecutor dealing with prosecution of organized crime and corruption and basic public prosecutors in connection with undertaking measures and activities for protection of the fundamental rights and freedoms of people and citizens, the interests of the State and other legal entities, in direction of a more effective detection and prosecution of crimes and their perpetrators as well as in direction of a lawful determination of facts and law application. According to the law, the Public Prosecutor of the Republic of North Macedonia may undertake criminal prosecution and undertake other actions that are in competence of a higher, basic or basic public prosecutor dealing with prosecution of organized crime and corruption, or may authorize them to conduct proceedings in relation to certain cases or undertake other actions that are under the competence of another public prosecutor.
At the beginning of each calendar year, the Public Prosecutor of the Republic of North Macedonia adopts an Annual Work Schedule and submits an Annual Report on the performance of the public prosecutor’s offices and the state of crime in the Republic of North Macedonia.
The Public Prosecutor of the Republic of North Macedonia submits a request to the Constitutional Court of the Republic of North Macedonia for initiating an assessment of the compliance of a law with the Constitution or the compliance of other bylaws with the Constitution and the existing laws, should issues of constitutionality and legality arise in the course of the work of the Public Prosecutor’s Office.
In case of termination of the office or dismissal of the Public Prosecutor of the Republic of North Macedonia, the Council of Public Prosecutors of the Republic of North Macedonia shall assign a Public Prosecutor from among public prosecutors of the Republic of North Macedonia to exercise the function until the appointment of a Public Prosecutor of the Republic of North Macedonia.
15 public prosecutors have exercised the office of Public Prosecutor of the Republic of North Macedonia since 1944.