Jasna Matić (Serbian Cyrillic: Јасна Матић, born 14 January 1964) is a Serbian business consultant and a politician. She served as the Minister of Telecommunications and Information Society from 2008 to 2011.

Jasna Matić
Јасна Матић
Minister of Telecommunications and Information Society
In office
7 July 2008 – 14 March 2011
Preceded byAleksandra Smiljanić
Succeeded byPredrag Marković
(Merged into Ministry of Culture)
Personal details
Born (1964-01-14) 14 January 1964 (age 60)
Belgrade, Serbia
Political partyG17 Plus
EducationFaculty of Civil Engineering
Alma materUniversity of Belgrade
Washington University in St. Louis

Education and career edit

She was born in Belgrade and received a degree in Civil Engineering in 1994 from the University of Belgrade's Faculty of Civil Engineering as well as a degree in Business Administration in 2001 from Washington University in St. Louis.[1]

From 1994 to 1999, she worked as a civil engineer and project coordinator in Masinoproject Kopring, Belgrade.

From 2001 to 2002, she was Adviser to the Yugoslav Deputy Prime Minister. She was also a World Bank consultant in Washington D.C. from 2000 to 2001. She was Chief Adviser of the project for the promotion of Serbia's competitiveness to Booz Allen Hamilton, USAID.

From 2004 to 2007, she was Director of the Serbian Investment and Export Promotion Agency - SIEPA.[2]

She was appointed State Secretary of the Ministry of Economy and Regional Development in 2007 and held the position until July 2008.[2]

On 7 July 2008, she was elected Minister of Telecommunications and Information Society[3][4] and was dismissed on 14 March 2011.

She held the position of the State Secretary for Digital Agenda in the Ministry of Culture, Information, and Informational Society.[5] In October 2012, she was appointed as an advisor at the Ministry of Finance, a position she held until the reconstruction of the Government of Serbia in September 2013.[2]

Personal life edit

She speaks English, and has a working knowledge of Italian and German.[2]

References edit

  1. ^ "Jasna Matić". wsa-global.org.
  2. ^ a b c d Vlaović, Gojko (23 July 2020). "Jasna Matić: Osuđena direktorka". danas.rs.
  3. ^ "Minister's biography from the Official web page of Ministry of Telecommunications and Information Society". Archived from the original on 15 April 2012. Retrieved 17 March 2012.
  4. ^ "Lowest price for Telekom still unknown". B92. 26 October 2010. Archived from the original on 4 November 2012. Retrieved 27 April 2011.
  5. ^ "Ms. Jasna Matić, State Secretary for Digital Agenda, Serbia". Archived from the original on 1 April 2012. Retrieved 17 March 2012.

External links edit

Government offices
Preceded by Minister of Telecommunications and Information Society
2008–2011
Succeeded by
Predrag Marković
(Merged into Ministry of Culture)