President of the Women4Cyber Montenegro
Andreja Mihailovic, PhD
Andreja Mihailovic, PhD, is a lecturer, researcher and consultant in the fields of business and criminal law, with a particular interest in cybersecurity, cybercrime, digital investigation, electronic evidence, cyber diplomacy, and innovation and technology policies.
She is employed as a teaching associate for the criminal law group of subjects at the Faculty of Law of the University of Montenegro and engaged as a guest lecturer on the “Cyber Crime” module at the University College Cork (UCC) in Ireland.
She is involved in the development of the multidisciplinary information security study programs as well as various cyber-oriented initiatives addressing students’ and the ICT market’s contemporary needs. As a holder of a British Scholarship Trust scholarship, she was a PhD researcher at the University of Birmingham (UK) in 2017, where she gained advanced training in cybersecurity and digitalization (including: the Institute for Sociological and European Research (ISES, Hungary), the University of Tartu (Estonia), the Southeast European Dialogue on Internet Governance (SEEDIG, Moldova), the summer e-government academy of the Swedish Institute at the University of Linköping (SEGRID, Sweden), the Marie Curie Alumni Association “From Research to Innovation” and the summer school “EU and Legal Reform” (CCSDD, University of Bologna) and others.
She has published a significant number of papers in prestigious domestic and international journals in the fields of commercial and criminal law, with a focus on digitization and cyber security.
She participated in several projects aimed at improving corporate social responsibility, policy reforms, and cybersecurity education, and she was the project coordinator of the national team established by the Government and the University of Montenegro for the application for the location of the “Western Balkans Cyber Capacity Center (WB3C),” the project of the French Ministry of Foreign Affairs in collaboration with the Government of Slovenia, with the goal of creating a regional structure to strengthen cyber resilience and develop cyber capacities in the WB’s economies and administrations.
In 2022, she was selected as an expert in the field of digitization for the verification of knowledge, abilities, competences, and skills for work in state bodies by the Human Resources Administration of Montenegro, where she is also a trainer for training programs in the field of cyber security. Member of the European Law Institute (ELI) and the Executive Academic Board of the European Security and Defense College (ESDC).
Vice President of Women4Cyber Montenegro
Neli Rasovic
Currently she is the Representative of Montenegro at the Migration, Asylum, Refugees Regional Initiative (MARRI) Regional Centre (RC) in Skopje, seconded by the Government of Montenegro. Her main tasks are related to providing support to strengthening border management cooperation among the Western Balkans authorities.
Prior to being seconded to the MARRI RC, her decade-long work experience was acquired within the Ministry of the Interior of Montenegro, where she served as a Senior Advisor for International Cooperation, managing and coordinating a broad range of bilateral and multilateral activities. She has been involved in the EU Negotiation Process as Coordinator of Institution for Chapter 23 – Judiciary and Fundamental Rights. Continuously working on her personal and professional development, she has attended numerous programs and trainings in the country, as well as on eminent institutions across Europe and Asia (Sciences Po, College of Europe, Council of Europe, International Management Institute New Delhi etc). Her expertise and research interests cover several domains including regional and international relations, migration, global and cyber security, youth and female empowerment.
Neli is a Chevening alumna and holds a Master’s degree in International Relations from the University of Exeter, United Kingdom. She earned her Bachelor’s degree in Economics from the Faculty of Economics, University of Montenegro. Neli speaks Montenegrin, Albanian, English, Italian and some Spanish.
Education & Training Coordinator
Isidora Stankovic
Isidora Stankovic was born in Podgorica, Montenegro, in 1993. She received her BSc degree with First Class Honours in Electrical Engineering at the University of Westminster, London, UK, in 2014, as one of the best students of her generation. She completed her MSc degree in Communication and Signal Processing at the Imperial College London, UK, in 2015. After completing her Master’s studies, she enrolled in doctoral studies at the University of Montenegro. She also enrolled in doctoral studies at the University of Grenoble Alpes, and officially became a student of the double-degree program of these two universities. She received her PhD degree in 2020 on the topic: “Analysis of non-stationary signals: contribution of compressive sensing in for intereference management in dispersive media”.
Currently, she works as a teaching assistant at the Faculty of Electrical Engineering, University of Montenegro, on subjects in the field of Computing and Signal Processing.
As an author or co-author, she has published 15 papers in renowned journals indexed on the SCI list, including IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Letters (impact factor 3.534), Signal Processing, Elsevier (impact factor 4.086), Multimedia Tools and Applications, Springer (impact factor 2.101), IEEE Transactions on Aerospace and Electronic Systems (impact factor 2.063) and IEEE Access (impact factor 4.098). Additionally, as an author or co-author, she published and presented 38 papers at international conferences. She also published two papers in nationally important journals, as well as one chapter in a book by the renowned publisher CRC. She reviewed papers in several journals and conferences.
Communications and Marketing Coordinator
Vasilija Velfel
She completed her Specialist studies at the Faculty of Tourism and Hotel Management in Kotor and worked in the same field in her hometown Herceg Novi.
She teaches three languages for a Hong Kong-based online teaching company.
In addition, she participates as an interviewer in online surveys of foreign markets., that are also organized through the Internet.
Fine arts are her great passion, and her artwork has been presented on some exibitions outside the country.
Her participation in the mission of this organization is to point out the obstacles that she had and still has as a woman and mother on her way to business engagement, spreading her knowledge for the benefit of the cyber community in our country.
PR and Social Media Coordinator
Jovana Vuković
Jovana Vuković is a professor of Montenegrin language and literature and has a MA in Communicology.
She gained work experience at the National Library “Đurđe Crnojević” in Cetinje, as an intern. She is currently employed as a journalist.
She is the author of two collections of poetry and several papers on the topic of literature and media. She attended numerous trainings, mainly in the field of media, fight against misinformation, marketing and public relations.
She is a certified trainer for media literacy.
She speaks English.
Coordinator for children’s safety on the Internet
Bojan Jušković
Bojan Jušković is a business and civil security manager and a children’s online safety educator.
He holds a degree from the Faculty of Business Management in Bar, Montenegro. He started his career in the private sector, but since 2016 he has been working for the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Montenegro as an officer for civil status and personal documents in the Bijelo Polje regional unit.
Bojan is committed to lifelong learning and has attended various trainings and seminars on topics such as: domestic violence prevention and response, security culture, personal data protection, cyber security, and internet safety. He has also participated in conferences on cyber security and children’s safety.
Bojan actively promotes children’s online safety through his education work and his social media account “Safe Growing Up”.
Bojan has completed parachuting training, and in his free time he also likes to engage in martial arts and mountain climbing.
