Maja Popović was born in 1972 in Belgrade which at that time was a part of the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia. She finished elementary school in her hometown, and high school in an international school in the Balearic Islands, Spain, where she was a student of the generation. Classes at this school were conducted in English and Spanish. In 1989, she enrolled at the Faculty of Law at the University of Belgrade and graduated within the age of 21. 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.
