An independent politician, she was previously an advisor to Bratislav Gašić, the director of Security Intelligence Agency (BIA).

Maja Popović was born in 1972 in Belgrade which at that time was a part of the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia.

She passed the bar exam and defended her master's thesis at the Faculty of Law at the University of Novi Sad with an average grade of 9.80.

[2] In 2012, she became an assistant for non-medical affairs, director of the City Institute for Emergency Medical Aid in Belgrade.

Her parents are lawyers Jevđo and Vesna Kušić, and her husband is Judge Rastko Popović.