Members of Government
Dubravka Djedovic Handanovic
Minister of Mining and Energy
Born in 1978 in Belgrade. She graduated in banking and finance from the Faculty of Economics in Belgrade and received a master's degree in finance and management from SDA Bocconi School of Management in Milan, Italy, and the UCLA Anderson School of Management in Los Angeles.
She has published several scientific papers on the topic of public-private partnerships and project financing in cooperation with the University of Belgrade and is a guest lecturer at master's studies at University College London.
She came to the position of Minister of Mining and Energy from the post of member of the Executive Board of NLB Komercijalna Banka to which she was appointed in 2021. She came to this position from the position of Director of the Regional Representative Office of the European Investment Bank (EIB) for the Western Balkans, the largest multilateral financial institution in the world and one of the largest creditors of the Western Balkan countries, which she held for five years.
She brought to the Serbian government a rich 18-year long international experience of financing large corporations, investments and projects in the fields of energy, transport, telecommunications, innovation and other industries, as well as experience in financing small and medium-sized enterprises, which are the pillar of the Serbian economy.
Before coming to the position in the EIB in Belgrade, she was the Manager for Serbia, North Macedonia and Albania at the EIB headquarters in Luxembourg, but also in charge of public-private partnership projects and project financing including Ireland, France, Great Britain and the Benelux countries, when she was awarded by Project Finance magazine for the European transaction of the year in the aviation sector in 2013.
Prior to her career in banking, Djedovic worked in media and communication field.
She speaks English, French, Italian and Russian.
