Aleksandar Jovanovic

CEO of the Steinbeis EU-VRi European Risk and Resilience Institute in Stuttgart, Germany providing expertise in the areas of risk and resilience assessment and management. He is a full professor at Steinbeis University and Associate Member of ETH Zürich, Switzerland. His previous academic and research assignments include Politecnico di Milano (Italy), University of Stuttgart (Germany), Ecole Polytechnique (France), University of Tokyo (Japan), University of California La Jolla (USA), Beijing Capital University (China), the European Commission (Belgium, Italy), Argonne Ntl. Lab. (USA), and ETH Zürich, Switzerland (visiting professor), as well as the direct work in/for industry in USA, Yugoslavia, South Africa, and Germany.

In his professional experience, he has acted as manager of over 150 large international/multinational projects in the areas of innovation management, new technologies, risk management, advanced data analysis and data mining, and related areas (the project for the EU, national governments, industry, utilities, insurances companies, R&D and academia). The main topics covered by the projects dealt with risk and resilience management in industry (e.g. for insurance, power and process plants, gas & oil industry, energy supply resilience) and include HSSE (Health, Safety, Security, Environment), RCM (Reliability Centered Maintenance), RBI (Risk-Based Inspection), KPIs (Key Performance Indicators), RCFA (Root Cause Failure Analysis), sustainability analysis, resilience indicators and application of AI (artificial intelligence).

A. Jovanovic acted as convener of the national, European and ISO standards: CEN-CWA 15740:2008 (“RBI”), EN16991:2018 (“RBI”) and CEN-CWA 16449:2013 (“Management on New Technologies-Related Risks”), recently for ISO TS 31050:2023 (“Management of emerging risks for enhanced resilience”), and DIN-SPEC 91461:2022 (“Framework for stress-testing resilience of industrial plants and sites (critical entities) exposed to cyber-physical attacks”). He is a coauthor of the seminal study on Future Global Shocks of the OECD (2013), author of 7 books and over 150 publications. He speaks fluently French, Italian, English, German and Serbian.