The Assembly of the Belgrade Open School has elected new members of the Executive Board, who will determine the most important strategic decisions in the next two years and make sure that each project activity fulfills the mission and vision of BOS. All members of the Executive Board are part of the BOS Alumni community, the largest alumni community in Serbia - with more than 1,300 successful individuals who occupy some of the most important positions in the business, public, and civil sectors.
Members of Executive board are Slobodan Markovic, PhD, Vladimir Cerovic, Jelena Jerinic, PhD, Natasa Nikolov, Vladimir Pavicevic, PhD, Dordje Petric, Rade Rakocevic, PhD, Jelena Sribar and Marinko Vucinic as the president of the Assembly of BOS.
Brief biographies of new members of the Executive Board are available in the text below.
Slobodan Markovic, PhD, is the president of the Executive Board of the Belgrade Open School, a full professor at the Faculty of Political Sciences, University of Belgrade, and the Institute for European Studies. His areas of scientific interest are Political anthropology, Balkan studies, Serbia's relations with the United States, and Great Britain, Image of the “other“, the history of European pessimism and Psychoanalytic anthropology. He has been a member of the Assembly of the Belgrade Open School since its founding in 1996, and a student of the second generation of BOS studies.
Vladimir Cerovic is the president of the Alumni Network of the Belgrade Open School, the regional director of the company BNI Serbia, as well as the ambassador of the organization InterNations from Germany. He is the owner of an entrepreneurial company and the director of the LE group in Villach, Austria. He has been a participant in the BOS mentorship program Alumni2Students for four years, which makes him especially proud since he enjoys sharing his rich work experience and knowledge, considering also that he was a student of the third generation of BOS studies.
Jelena Jerinic, PhD, is a full professor at the Faculty of Law, Union University in Belgrade, in the subjects of Constitutional Law, Administrative Law, and Law of Local Self-Government. Since 2020, she has been the Vice Dean for Science at the same faculty. In her scientific work, she analyzes national regulations in the context of public administration reform, focused on the position of vulnerable social groups. She was a part of the eighth generation of Future Studies.
Natasa Nikolov is a PR and event manager with over 15 years of experience in the business, public, and civil sectors. Since 2016, she works at the Microsoft Development Center in Serbia. She has been a part of Belgrade Open School since 2004 - first as a student of the eighth generation of the Future studies, and then as part of a professional team on various projects. Since the beginning of the realization of the Alumni2Students program, she has been a proud mentor to students of the new BOS generations. She is also the initiator and one of the organizers of the first BOS Alumni donor party.
Vladimir Pavicevic, PhD, is a political scientist and politician. He received his PhD from the Faculty of Political Sciences, University of Belgrade in 2011. He was an MP in the National Assembly of the Republic of Serbia, an assistant professor at the Faculty of Political Sciences, University of Belgrade, and an associate of the Belgrade Open School. He is now the director of the Society for Research in Politics and Political Theory and a member of the Board of directors of the Zoran Djindjic Foundation. He attended the one-year academic program of advanced undergraduate studies at the Belgrade Open School in the period from 2000 to 2001.
Djordje Petric is a director of Servus Hanyang Group Europe and a banker with more than 15 years of experience in international banking institutions, of which more than 11 years in senior management positions. He also served as a consultant with experience of over 50 consulting interventions. He graduated and obtained his master's degree at the Faculty of Economics, University of Belgrade. He attended a one-year academic program of BOS advanced undergraduate studies in the period from 1994 to 1995.
Rade Rakocevic, PhD, has a doctoral dissertation in economic sciences and is a financial investor. From 2000 to 2007, he was the owner and director of the broker-dealer house Senzal a.d. Belgrade, one of the largest brokerage houses in Serbia in that period. From 2007 until today, he is the owner of the investment company Senzal Capital d.o.o. Belgrade, which invests in stock exchanges in Serbia and abroad. In addition, he is engaged in private investment in domestic companies, as well as investing in real estate, and he was a student of the first generation of BOS studies.
Jelena Sribar is the director of the human resources department at Mercator-S and has extensive professional experience in the field of human resources development. She graduated and obtained her master's degree at the Faculty of Philosophy, University of Belgrade. She was a student of the tenth generation of the Future studies at the Belgrade Open School, while BOS also gave her the first opportunity for employment.
Marinko Vucinic is the president of the Assembly of the Belgrade Open School, a member of the editorial board of Srpski knjizevni list, an associate of the site and magazine Nova srpska politicka misao and the president of the association of Serbs in Croatia. He was engaged in publishing and journalistic work, and he published and edited five authors' books and four collections and anthologies. He is a program advisor in the educational program Futures Studies.