Aleksandar Kovacevic
Senior Visiting Research Fellow

Aleksandar Kovacevic started his professional career with the Federal Productivity Institute of Former Yugoslavia in 1986. He graduated in energy economics at the Belgrade University. He is principal author of the energy – poverty analyses (“Stuck in the Past”, UNDP, 2004), co-author of the Western Balkans energy policy survey (IEA / UNDP, 2008) and the Public Expenditure and Institutional Review (PEIR) for Serbia and Montenegro (World Bank, 2003) and a number of papers, lectures and media contributions. Over 20 years he provides strategic advice, complex energy efficiency solutions and emergency situation assistance to major institutional, financial and private clients including assistance to UN OCHA to coordinate rapid reconstruction of Serbia energy infrastructure after 1999 war. He was affiliated to PlanEcon before 1992, project manager for Tagarnrog Development project in Russia (1992-1998) and contributor to the Black Sea and Central Asia panel at the Harriman Institute, Columbia University. Aleksandar is a member of Advisory Board to the Russian Power Conference from 2002 and UNECE Group of experts in Sustainable Energy as well as regular consultant to the World Bank and contributor to Oil and Gas Economy and Law (OGEL) network. He won Innovation Award at the Power Gen Europe Conference at 2002.