Serbia Speakers 2017

Ms Jovana Maric is a young civil servant of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Serbia. Having a degree from the College of political science at the University of Belgrade, she is a political scientist of international relations. After being an intern at the Office of the then first deputy Prime Minister of Serbia, she has moved to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, where she was the personal assistant to the Minister of Foreign Affairs. As a member of the Cabinet, Ms Maric was a part of the official Ministerial delegation to the Council of the EU (Brussels, Belgium), Adriatic and Ionian Initiative Summit (Athens, Greece), African Union Summit (Addis Ababa, Ethiopia) and official Ministerial visit to Sophia, Bulgaria. Ms Maric later joined the Directorate-General for Europe. After getting married and moving to India, she has become a very active member of the group of ambassadors’ spouses, where she has been chosen as a member of the Executive Committee for two consecutive years. Ms Maric has also been chosen as the chairwoman of the International Charity Bazaar, the biggest event of its kind held in New Delhi. She has been giving lectures on Serbia in New Delhi and rural parts of India. Ms Maric is also doing an internship in the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies in New Delhi, under which she participated at the Asian Ministerial Conference on Disaster Risk Reduction, held in Delhi in November 2016.

Dragana Djermanovic is an Internet strategist and lecturer. Currently, she is the Chief Strategist Officer of Bee Premium Group, owner of prpepper social web agency and CEO and founder of BeeShaper.com, Internet marketing platform. As a representative of The European Public Relations Education and Research Association (EUPRERA) and Euroblog Association, Dragana was an honorable member of the jury for the Social Media Awards and a respectable ambassador of WebIT committee of Internet Practitioners of South-Eastern Europe. Additionally, in 2011, 2012, 2013 and 2014 she was a jury member and honorary representative for European ICT awards in Luxembourg. This Serbian entrepreneur is a guest and key note speaker at the world’s biggest conferences and professional events in ICT, such as WebCom (Montreal, Canada), CeBIT (Hannover, Germany), ICT Spring (Luxembourg), DigIT (Ljubljana, Slovenia), Le Web (Paris, France), Rise (Hong Kong), We Summit (Dublin, Ireland), Next (Berlin, Germany) and many others. Dragana is the only Serbian business person enlisted in The Hundert’s top 100 female entrepreneurs in Europe. The list has been confirmed by the renown American magazine Forbes.