14th Annual Conference on Economic Reforms in Serbia: Grey Book 2022

She was born on 5 May 1970 in Tuzla. After graduating from the First Economics School in Belgrade, as a student of the generation, she enrolled at the Faculty of Economics, where she graduated in 1993 and received her doctorate in 2001 in the field of energy and economics. She became Assistant Professor at the University of John Nesbitt in 2008, Associate Professor and Vice-Rector for Science in 2011, and was elected as a full-time professor in 2016. She is the author and co-author of four books in the field of energy and sustainable development. She has published more than two hundred papers on the problems and possibilities of the development of the Serbian energy sector. She worked in the First Economics School, EPS-Elektroistok, at Nikola Tesla Airport and the University of John Nesbitt, where she is still employed. From 2004 to 2006, she was the Advisor to the Deputy Prime Minister of the Republic of Serbia for Energy. She was the Energy Adviser to Republika Srpska Prime Minister Milorad Dodik from 2010 to 2012. From 2012 to 2014, she was the Governor of Serbia at the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD). She was elected Minister of Energy, Development and Environmental Protection in 2012, and since 2014 she is the Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Construction, Transport and Infrastructure. The portfolio of the ministry, headed by her, has the infrastructure projects in the value of approximately €16 billion. During the same term, she was appointed the President of the Coordination Body of the Government of the RS for Gender Equality, as well as the responsible person on behalf of the Government for the issue of Roma inclusion. She chairs the Joint Government Group of the RS with the task of defining specific measures for improving the position of the Republic of Serbia on the World Bank Doing Business list and the Council of Foreign Investors. She is the President of the Coordination Body for supporting the monitoring of project implementation, investing in the reconstruction and/or construction of clinical health centres. Since 2018, she is a member of the Advisory Board of the World Bank for Gender Equality and Development, the body responsible for reviewing the progress achieved in gender equality at the global level and recommending activities to empower women and reduce the gap between women and men. Since the establishment of the Ministry of Construction, Transport and Infrastructure in 2014, which she still manages, more than 200 km of new highways have been built, more than 200 km of railroads have been reconstructed, public enterprise reforms have been started and a major step forward has been made in harmonization of domestic legislation in the field of traffic and construction with the rules applicable in the European Union. A special achievement is the implementation of comprehensive reforms in the field of construction, which resulted in Serbia's progress from 186th to the 10th place in the world for issuing of building permits on the Doing business list of the World Bank and improvement of the overall rating of the country on the list from 91th to 43rd place in three years. In her twenty-five-year professional career, she received more than 200 acknowledgments, charters and recognition, among which the "Reformer of the Year" in the selection of the NALED is one of the most significant ones. She received this award for the first time in 2014 for comprehensive building licensing reforms, and the second award, "Reformer of 2016", was awarded to her for decade of reforms in this area. She is a member of the Council of the University of Belgrade and the Management Board of the Development Fund. She is the founder of NGO Women's Government, a member of the European Movement in Serbia and the East West Bridge organization. She is the initiator of the initiative "Let Us Employ Thousands of Women in the Rural Areas", which is implemented by the Coordinating Body for Gender Equality in cooperation with Ethno-Network and NALED.

Prof. dr Darija Kisić was born in 1975 in Sarajеvo. She completed the Faculty of Medicine in Belgrade in 2001, attended medical internship in 2001 and 2002 at the Military Medical Academy in Belgrade, and passed the professional exam in Sеptеmber 2002. She enrolled in post-graduate Magister studies in epidemiology in 2002/03 at the Faculty of Medicine in Belgrade, and defended her Magister thesis in June 2006. Her doctoral thesis "Prеdiktivna vrеdnost kvalitеta života u procеni ishoda bolеsti kod bolеsnika sa multiplom sklеrozom" was defended at the Faculty of Medicine in Belgrade in May 2010. She attended spеcialization in epidemiology at the Faculty of Medicine in Belgrade from May 2004 to June 2008, completing sub-spеcialization in epidemiology of non-contagious illnesses at the Faculty of Medicine in Belgrade in Dеcеmber 2017. She has been employed at the Epidemiology Institute of the Faculty of Medicine in Belgrade since Fеbruary 2002, when she was appointed Assistant Professor Traineee for Epidеmiology. She was later appointed Assistant Professor in May 2007, and once again in June 2010, while becoming Docent Professor in Fеbruary, being reappointed in May 2016. Since June 2017, she has held the title of Associate Professor for Epidеmiology. She has also been teaching epidemiology at the Faculty of Medicine in Kosovska Mitrovica since Fеbruary 2019. She has been a member of the National Expert Commission for Oncology since 2015, as well as a member of Presidency of Epidemiology Section. She is a co-author of six books in the field of medicine, while the total number of her published works from the SCI list amounts to 122. She has been Deputy Director of the Institute of Public Health "Dr Milan Jovanović Batut" since 2017. She speaks English. She is a mother of one. 

Tatjana Matic was born in 1972 in Belgrade, where she finished elementary school and high school. She graduated from the Faculty of Philology at the University of Belgrade and acquired the title of professor of Serbian language and literature. In May 2014, she was appointed Secretary of State in the Ministry of Trade, Tourism and  Telecommunications. Since March 2015, she has been a member of the Commission of the Republic of Serbia for Cooperation with the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) in the field of information technologies and information society. Since January 2016, he has been a member of the European Strategic Group for Digital Development, and since March he has been the coordinator of the Economic Reform Program - ERP 2016-2018. From July 2012 to April 2014, she served as State Secretary of the Ministry of Foreign and Internal Trade and Telecommunications. In the period from 2007 to 2012, she served as Secretary of the Ministry of Labor and Social Policy. He speaks English and Russian.

H.E. Emanuele Giaufret has been appointed the EU Ambassador to Serbia in September 2021. He took this position after serving four years as the EU Ambassador to Israel. Previous to that he served at European External Action Service as the Head of the Division for Democracy and Electoral Observation and as Political Assistant to the Managing Director responsible for North Africa and the Middle East. He was also posted at the EU Delegation to the United Nations in New York, and again at the EU Delegation in Israel, as Head of the Political and Trade Section. At the beginning of his career at European Commission, he worked at the Directorate General for External Relations, as desk officer for electoral observation. Before joining the EU, H.E. Emanuele Giaufret worked at the OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights. He has a PhD in History of International Relations from the University of Florence, and a Master in European Affairs from the College of Europe in Bruges. He is married and a father of three.

Ary is IFC Regional Manager for Central & Southeast Europe, covering the Western Balkans as well as Bulgaria, Poland, Romania. An Engineer with a major in Artificial Intelligence, and a French national, Ary started his career in 1991 at BNP Paribas, in France then Morocco. He joined IFC in 2003 as SME Financing and Non-Bank Financial Institutions Specialist, then Global Product Head for Access to Finance Advisory Services, then Country Head for Haïti and the Dominican Republic. For 5 years prior to taking his current position, Ary was Country Manager for Mexico.Ary is passionate abou.t Climate Finance, SME Finance, Biodiversity, Future of work, Digital Financial Services, Smart Infrastructure, and Public-Private Partnerships.

Yulia Ustyugova is currently is a head of the International Monetary Fund Office in Belgrade. Previously, she was a desk economist for various Latin American countries. Prior to joining the IMF in 2007, she was an economist at the Bank of Russia. Her research focuses on fiscal and monetary policy frameworks in emerging market economies, and commodity prices and inflation dynamics.

Dejan Đokić has been the Director of ASEE in Serbia since February 2017. He started the company engagement as Project Manager in 2005, and further career development led him to the position of Director of Profit center for infrastructure services. He has managed and took part in a number of projects of crucial importance for the company, in financial and public sector in the region, as well as major regional projects in the field telecommunications. Before joining ASEE, Dejan worked as engineer-associate in Jugoimport company and as technology engineer in Zepter International. He graduated from the Faculty of Mechanical Engineering in Belgrade, earning a degree in the field of industrial engineering.

Vladislav Cvetkovic is Director of Advisory Services in “PricewaterhouseCoopers” in Belgrade since 2013. He served as the Director of Privatization Agency from 2009 to 2013, managing all activities on the Serbian privatization agenda, including the improvement of privatization-related legislation. From 2001 to 2007 he was engaged in the National Bank of Serbia and the Agency for Deposit Insurance, as Advisor to the Governor and the leading advisor for privatization of banks. During this period, he led a number of projects related to banking sector reform and was directly engaged in formulating and successful implementation of the strategy and privatization of significant financial institutions in the country, also leading on several of the largest privatization projects in Serbia so far. From 2004 to 2005 he was a Council member in the National Bank of Serbia, and the Managing Board President in Komercijalna banka AD Beograd from 2006 to 2009. His professional career started in financial consulting in “Deloitte”, Belgrade, in 1994-2000, as well as in academia, as he was a lecturer at the Faculty of Economy in Belgrade, at the Business Finance and Accounting department.