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Aleksandra Drecun, JD, MPA, is the President of Intersection, Center for Science and Innovation and the Board Director of the European Science Engagement Association. She is the Harvard Alumni Association Director for Europe and the member of European Commission (EC) DG Research and Innovation policy bodies for “Strategic Configuration of Horizon 2020, with Science with and for Society” and “Europe in a changing world – Innovative, Inclusive and Reflective”. She is particularly focused on international research collaboration and science diplomacy.

Drecun participates in Horizon 2020, COST, Creative Europe and other research and cooperation projects and coordinated EC FP 7 projects for South Eastern Europe. She is the consultant to the World Bank and the UN on research and innovation, science engagement, gender, public policy, good governance, capital investments and public investments management information systems. She is a peer reviewer for EC, COST and Science Foundation Ireland, and is on the Advisory Board of NUCLEUS (New Understanding of Communication, Learning and Engagement in Universities and Scientific Institutions). She is the founding member of the Women’s Government of Serbia, the President of the Advisory Board of the Mathematical Gymnasium Belgrade and the President of the Harvard Club of Serbia. 

Drecun was the Secretary General at the Ministry of Finance and Economy (2001-2003), Secretary General to the President of Serbia (2004-2006), the President of the Managing Board of Belgrade Philharmonic (2006-2010), Special Advisor at the Government of Serbia (2007-2009) and the founding Director of the Center for the Promotion of Science (2010-2013). She passed the Bar Exam for Yugoslavia, and lectured at Belgrade University Law School and Police Academy. Aleksandra received Nikola Tesla Award, Milutin Milanković Award, Albert Weiss Award, University of Belgrade Best Research Paper Award and two City of Belgrade Awards.

Aleksandra graduated at the Law School University of Belgrade and holds Masters degree from Harvard University, J. F. Kennedy School of Government

Prof. Nataša Krejić specializes in Numerical Optimization. She is the Vice president of the European Consortium for Mathematics in Industry (2018-2019), a member of National Board for Mathematics, Mechanics and Computer Science, Chair of Numerical Mathematics group at the Department of Mathematics and Informatics and Vice-dean for Finance at the Faculty of Sciences (2015-2020). She served as an Index Committee member at Belgrade Stock Exchange during 2006-2015.  Prof. Krejić supervised 7 PhD thesis and over 20 MSc thesis. At present she leads the research project Numerical Methods, Simulations and Applications (2011-2018) financed by Ministry of Education, Science and Technological Development, Republic of Serbia, grant no. 174030, participates at Ibidaas Horizon 2020 DG Reserach and Innovation project, coordinates IPA CRO-SRB project RealForAll project on behalf of Faculty of Sciences, and participates at COST action MI NET.

Prof. Krejić serves as an Associate Editor at Journal of Computational and Applied Mathematics, Springer, since  2014, and Publications de l’Institut Mathématique, since 2012. She was awarded Charles Broyden Prize for 2015 by the journal Optimization Methods and Software. Prof. Krejić has been visiting professor at the State University of Campinas, SP, Brasil in 1997, 1999-2000, 2003, 2011 and 2015, visiting professor at the University of Florence in 2018, as well as Erasmus Mundus Visitor at Eindhoven University of Technology in 2009 and Senior Research Fellow at CEU Budapest in 2009.   She has published over 60 papers in the area of numerical optimization. 

Boris Delibašić is a full professor at the University of Belgrade – Faculty of Organizational Sciences, Serbia. His research interests lie in business intelligence, data science, machine learning, multicriteria decision analysis, and decision support systems. He serves on editorial boards of several international journals, and is the coordinator of the EURO working group on Decision Support Systems. He obtained his PhD in 2007 from the University of Belgrade in the field of Organizational Sciences.

Delibašić was a guest lecturer at the Friedrich Schiller Uniersity of Jena from 2006 to 2011. He was awarded with the Fulbright Visiting Scholar Grant in 2011 which he conducted at Temple University at the Center for Data Analytics and Biomedical Informatics, at the laboratory of Professor Zoran Obradović. From 2012 Boris is the chief of the Center for Business Decision Making at the University of Belgrade – Faculty of Organizational Sciences.

Vladisav Jelisavčić is research assistant at the Mathematical institute of the Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts. He received his B.Sc. and  M.Sc. degrees in Electrical engineering and Computer science from School of Electrical Engineering, University of Belgrade. He is currently pursuing PhD degree from the same university. 

His primary reseach field is machine learning and data mining. His interests include probabilistic graphical models, sparse learning, and convex optimization. He was a visiting scholar at Temple University, Philadelphia, USA, where he participated in project: Prospective Analysis of Large and Complex Partially Observed Temporal Social Networks. 

He was engaged on several project financed by the Ministry for Science and Technological Development (MNTR) of the Republic of Serbia, implemented at Mathematical Institute of the Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts, and Innovation Center of the Faculty of Electrical Engineering. He was also engaged as a researcher in the EU FP7 project BALCON: Boosting EU-Western Balkan Countries research collaboration in the monitoring and control area, GA: 288076, as well as the innovation project MPNTR: Application of methods for finding knowledge on a large amount of data. He also has experience working on several open source software projects related to big data. He is a commiter for the Apache Ignite project for distributed software cache systems.