Goran Rakić was born in 1971 in Kosovska Mitrovica, which was then a part of the SFR Yugoslavia, to an ethnic Serb family.

[1] For a period of time, he worked as a firefighter and was the director of JKP "Standard" Kosovska Mitrovica, a utility company.

[1] He has been performing the function of the mayor of the municipality of North Mitrovica after swearing an oath to the Republic of Kosovo in 2014.

[1] In the summer of 2017, Rakić and Milan Radoičić, a vice president of the Serb List met with Behgjet Pacolli, a former Minister of Foreign Affairs of Kosovo in Budva to discuss the possibility of the Serb List joining the government of Kosovo and supporting Ramush Haradinaj as the prime minister.

[6] Shortly after, a parliamentary resolution initiated by Vjosa Osmani, the Speaker of the Parliament, condemning a statement by the Serb List failed to pass.