Environment Protection Alliance

Jelena Kiš is the Sustainability and Regulatory Affairs Manager for Central and Eastern Europe in Ball Packaging Europe. Jelena represents Ball at regional forums and in professional associations in the following countries: Hungary, Czech Republic, Romania, countries in the region and Serbia. As part of Ball's European sustainability team, she works on relevant initiatives together with Ball customers, as well as on sustainable business programs within the company itself.  She graduated and obtained a Master's degree in Zagreb at the Faculty of Natural Sciences and Mathematics, being MsC of Biology, department of Ecology. She worked as a Manager in international organization „Regional Environmental Center for Central and Eastern Europe” dealing with environment protection and waste management projects. She started working for Recan foundation for beverage can recycling in 2005, she started the "Every can counts" campaign in Montenegro in 2013, extending it to Serbia, Slovenia, Bosnia and Herzegovina and Croatia in 2017.  In Serbia, she works on defining the legislation needed for waste packaging recycling, with the aim of increasing the share of recycled cans, and supports the work of Recan foundation.

Slobodanka Cucić is Corporate Affairs Manager in Apatinska Brewery Molson Coors. She attended doctoral studies in the field of law at the Faculty of Law, University in Ghent, Belgium. She has longtime experience in various industries related to beverage production. She has been engaged in Apatinska Brewery since 2015 as Corporate Affairs Manager. Along with managing the company projects, Slobodanka is also in charge of sustainable business and socially responsible activities, crisis communications and relations with the Government and other company partners. As company representative in various associations, she advocates the application of Circular Economy principles and all principles regarding the environment protection and preservation. She was one of the first attendees of the Circular Economy Academy. From 2011 to 2014 she worked in Coca-Cola HBC Public and Corporate Affairs Manager. 

Bojana Perić was born in 1983 in Belgrade. She is the Director of packaging waste management operator Ekostar Pak, established by the company Jaffa from Crvenka and the Cardboard Factory Umka, members of Kappa Star Group. She graduated with a degree as Environment Protection Engineer and Sanitary Engineer.She started her career in 2007 in the field of quality in Delta Maxi being in charge for establishing and monitoring the food safety and quality control system in the procurement chain, from the point of procurement through distribution to sales. She successfully performed the certification of integrated quality system in line with the ISO 9001 standard and the HACCP system. During the adoption of a set of environment protection regulations in 2009, she continued her professional development in the field of environment, by participating in he establishment of one of the national packaging waste management operators. In July 2010, she took on the position of Environment Protection Manager in Delhaize Srbija. Within the newly established department, she was in cherge of guiding and managing the local strategy in the field of environment protection. For more than ten years, she has participated and managed various projects aimed at increasing the overall recycling rate within Delhaize Zero waste, and later Sustainable Retailing strategies. By establishing the program for donating excessive food, she contributed towards reducing the overall food waste. With the aim of countering climate change, she has worked on projects for developing the sustanaible resources managemen in our market. She actively participates in amendments and improvement of legal framework in the field of waste management, as a member of various working groups.