Ivana Kovačević
EDUCATION
professor of English language and literature, Faculty of Philology, University of Belgrade
WORK EXPERIENCE
Senior Advisor for the Development of Education, Department for Dual Education and Educational Policies, Serbian Chamber of Commerce, Belgrade, 2016-present.
Head of the Vocational Education Service, Serbian Chamber of Commerce, 2013-2016.
Since 2008 she has been employed in the Serbian Chamber of Commerce where she has gained experience in several organizational units – in the Cabinet of the President, as head of the Cabinet, in the Service for Vocational Education as its manager, and now in the Center for Education and Dual Education and Education as Senior Advisor, who is engaged in advocating the interests of the economy in improving formal education. The development of dual education has been engaged since the very beginning of the development of this model of education in Serbia, since 2013 when the first pilot projects started. For many years she has been involved in the drafting of laws and other regulations in the field of education, participates in the work on the harmonization of domestic legislation with the legal effects of EU, in the work of internal and external expert working groups; in the work of working groups in international institutions; in the design, management and implementation of projects and project activities in the field of education, employment and entrepreneurship development (National Qualifications Framework – NQF, sectoral councils, lifelong learning concept, dual education development, student entrepreneurship).
