Arno Gujon

Arno Gujon (Арно Гујон, Arnaud Gouillon; born 27 November 1985) is a French and Serbian politician, humanitarian worker, and founder of far-right Solidarité Kosovo, a French non-governmental humanitarian organization devoted to helping Serbs living in enclaves in Kosovo.

He was born on November 27, 1985, in Grenoble (France).

As the youngest of three children, he grew up in a family in which traditions, patriotism, and historical friendship between France and Serbia were nurtured.

Influenced by these family values, his view of events in the former Yugoslavia is significantly different from the some views in the West.

In 2002, he enrolled in the Faculty of Physics with an optional Master of Mathematics at the University of Grenoble, the second best university in France and 32nd in the world in Physics according to the Shanghai List.

When in 2004.

Anti-Serb pogroms broke out throughout Kosovo and Metohia, he decided to take concrete action and provide assistance to families, innocent victims of persecution.

At the age of nineteen, he founded the humanitarian organization "Solidarity for Kosovo" with the aim of helping the Serbian people and other national minorities living in enclaves in Kosovo and Metohia.

He completed his elementary education in his hometown of Jarrie and his secondary education in Vizille.

In 2004, he passed the examination for admission to the distinguished Engineering Polytechnic School of the University of Grenoble, majoring in Ecology and Risk Prevention, while in 2007 He obtained the master's degree with the title of engineer at the age of 22, in the field of "environmental protection".

His humanitarian work began with the creation in 2004 of the charity NGO Solidarity for Kosovo, which was founded in response to the anti-Serb unrest that afflicted Kosovo and Metohija on March 17 and 18, 2004.

He came to Serbia for the first time in 2005 with his brother Bertrand and two friends bringing the humanitarian aid gathered in France.

Gouillon's brothers’ small student organization quickly grew into one of the largest charities operating in the Balkans.

The NGO's core mission is to provide assistance exclusively to the Serbian, Orthodox Christian community of Kosovo.

Between 2007 and 2010 he worked as an engineer at L'Oréal in Paris, at the Chamber of Commerce in Bordeaux, as a professor of physics at a French school in Cairo and as a quality coordinator in Zvornik (Republika Srpska) for Studen-Prom, a company exporting frozen food products to France.

Since 2011, he has been employed as the director of the charity NGO Solidarity for Kosovo (Solidarité Kosovo), which he founded when he was a student and where he was volunteering during seven years.

He is a regular interlocutor of the French media who want to write about the humanitarian situation in Kosovo and Metohija.

He organized a 52-minute documentary about the life of the Serbian people in Kosovo and Metohija, aired four times on French television channel KTO and twice on the Serbian National Television channel RTS.

From 2011 to 2015, "Solidarity for Kosovo" has allegedly spent more money on collecting funds and organizational matter than on local level actions.

With the support of over 12,000 donors from all over France, and without any State or European sponsorship, Solidarity for Kosovo has organized over 44 humanitarian aid vehicles and funded dozens of projects in the areas of education, health and agriculture in cooperation with the Diocese of Raška-Prizren.

The organization is recognized in the field for its self-sustaining projects that allow people to live from their work rather than from humanitarian aid.

In cooperation with the Soup Kitchen "Majka Devet Jugovića", it funded the construction of five farms, one dairy, one plant for the pasteurization of fruits and vegetables, it built dozens of greenhouses and purchased hundreds of animals such as cows, sheep and goats, as well as agricultural machines for the local Serbian enclaves.

Working with children and humanitarian projects for children are also one of the priorities of the NGO Solidarity for Kosovo.

In 2012, he settled in Belgrade with his family.

He is active in several cultural associations and regularly holds lectures and panels around Serbia and abroad.

In 2012 he attended a Master of Political Science at the Faculty of Political Sciences in Belgrade, majoring in "Political System of Serbia and Institutions".

In addition to his native language French, he speaks Serbian, English and Russian.

In 2012, he is quoted by a French newspaper, saying: "I started as a humanitarian in order to support Serbian Christians being deprived of their land by the Muslims".

From 2012 to date, it has renovated 34 schools, took hundreds of children for the first time to the seaside, and helped operate two maternity wards, one hospital and four health centers.

The total worth of the assistance provided by Solidarity for Kosovo to socially disadvantaged families living in the Serbian enclaves in Kosovo and Metohija exceeds €5.5 million.

In addition to his humanitarian work, Arnaud Gouillon is very active in the social and cultural areas.

In 2015, he received Serbian citizenship based on his merits in the field of humanitarian work and the passport of the Republic of Serbia was delivered to him at an official ceremony in the Palace of Serbia by the Minister of the Interior of the Republic of Serbia, Nebojša Stefanović.

He joined the Serbian Progressive Party in 2023.

In 2016, Arnaud Gouillon was invited to be one of the participants in the campaign "Let's Cherish the Serbian language", sponsored by the Ministry of Culture of the Republic of Serbia, with the aim of cultivating and protecting the Serbian language, alphabet, general linguistic culture and literacy.

Two years later, he became the trademark and the leader of the Speech Culture Caravan, which organizes trainings and panels for young people across Serbia and Republika Srpska.

He also often responds to calls from other cultural or humanitarian associations, such as Telethon in Belgrade, Dani Jorgovana in Kraljevo, Ljubičevski Equestrian Games in Požarevac, etc...

The film entitled "Kosovo, Christianity at Risk" was awarded as the best performance at the Zaječar Documentary Spiritual Film Festival and at the 2018 International Orthodox Film Festival in Kruševac.

He has served as acting director of the Office for Cooperation with the Diaspora and the Serbs in the Region in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Serbia since 26 November 2020.

He is author of the book, "All My Roads Lead to Serbia" (in Serbian: "Svi moji putevi vode ka Srbiji").

He was awarded with the highest State and church decorations of Serbia for his fifteen years of humanitarian work.