Prince Nikola Petrović Njegoš

He completed his studies in Paris, and he spent most of his vacations at his family home in Brittany. In the early period of his life, he was an activist in the associations for the defense of natural habitats in Brittany (his mother Zenvyev Prizan was the president of several organizations for the protection of the environment in Brittany).

He graduated from the Faculty of Architecture in 1971 at The Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts in Paris, France. After graduation, he worked as an independent architect.

He founded and led The Cetinje Biennial of Contemporary Art from 1991 to 2002. Since the beginning of the Yugoslav conflicts, after the appeal for peace he made during the first bombing of Dubrovnik, he founded and chaired the association Izbor (that dealt with the legal defense of victims of ethnic discrimination in the former Yugoslavia).

During the same period, he founded and chaired The SEM (Solidarity-Europe-Montenegro) association, which organizes several campaigns for humanitarian aid in Montenegro.

In 2011, the Parliament of Montenegro adopted the Law on the Status of Descendants of the Petrović Njegoš Dynasty, which established The Petrović Njegoš Foundation chaired by Prince Nikola. The fields in which the Foundation directs its activities are solidarity, sustainable development, and valorization of cultural heritage.

On the 27th of April 2017, Florence Mangin, the head of the French Foreign Ministry’s Continental Europe Directorate awarded him with the National Order of the Legion of Honour, the highest French decoration.