He attended Orce Nikolov High School in Skopje, Macedonia, along with his best friends - opera singer Boris Trajanov and movie director Milcho Manchevski.

Cyril and Methodius University of Skopje, Macedonia and defended the thesis "Business Strategies of Multinational Companies."

Jolevski married Suzana Jolevska and they have two sons: Pero (1988), a Director at Blue Star Strategies, and Filip (1992), an economist at the World Bank Group.

From 1992 to 1994, Jolevski was the Secretary to the Delegation of Macedonia to the International Conference on Succession of the Former Yugoslavia, where he played an important role in the negotiations.

In October 1994, Jolevski became the First Secretary at the Permanent Mission of Macedonia to the World Trade Organization (WTO) and the United Nations office at Geneva, Switzerland.

While in the Ministry, Jolevski continued his International involvement as a Member of Bureau of the Commission of UNCTAD on Investment, Technology and Related Financial Issues.

After the Kosovo refugee crisis ended, Jolevski served as the adviser to Boris Trajkovski, who was a candidate for the Macedonian Presidential elections in 1999.

Following the election, which Trajkovski won, Jolevski served as the Secretary General, which replaced the former position of Chief of Staff.

Jolevski was in this position from 1999 to 2004, and also served as the Deputy negotiator and Chief Consultant to the Minister of Economy for accession to the WTO.

The Macedonian Government worked with the government of the United States and the EU on the Ohrid Framework Agreement, which brought peace in the Balkans; Zoran Jolevski was member of the negotiation team and he was the representative of President Trajkovski to the session of the Assembly of the Republic of Macedonia for the constitutional changes required by the Ohrid Framework Agreement.

After peace was established, Jolevski became high involved in the International society especially at the United Nations Economic Commission for Europe, while remaining Secretary General of the President.

Jolevski was Member of Team of Specialists on Internet Enterprise Development, United Nations Economic Commission for Europe in Geneva, after that he became the Chairman of the Workshop: IPR and Trade Facilitation: "Identifying Opportunities and Roadblocks", "Second International Forum on Trade Facilitation : 14–15 May 2003 in Geneva, organized by the United Nations Economic Commission for Europe.

Since 2005, Jolevski has served as the Vice Chairman of the Committee on Trade of the United Nations Economic Commission for Europe in Geneva.

Jolevski was asked by Boris Trajkovski the night prior to the flight to stay in Skopje and work on accession of Macedonia into the NATO and the EU.

In addition to teaching, he began a consulting career working as Chief of Party for a project by Booz Allen Hamilton that was funded by USAID called 'WTO Compliance Activity.

From 2006 to 2007, he was Chief of Party of another project by Booz Allen Hamilton funded by USAID called 'Macedonian Business Environment Activity.'

Zoran Jolevski was also a Special Adviser to Antonio Milososki, the current Minister for Foreign Affairs of the Macedonia.

During the name talks in Geneva on June 22, 2009, Ambassador Jolevski stated the position of the Macedonia side of the negotiations which is that: "We are ready for a compromise name that would not undermine our national identity and dignity"[4] On January 21, 2011, Jolevski presented his credentials to President Felipe Calderón, becoming the first Macedonian Ambassador to Mexico, acting from his office in Washington, D.C.[5] On May 18, 2011, the Republic of Macedonia was accepted as Permanent Observer in the Organization of American States, making Jolevski the first Permanent Observer of Macedonia at the Organization of American States.

[6] On June 7, 2014, the Macedonian press announced that Ambassador Jolevski joined the government of Nikola Gruevski as the new Minister of Defense.

Jolevski represented Macedonia in the conference for the United Nations Convention against Transnational Organized Crime in 2000 in Palermo, Italy.